Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
The state or condition of being fixed; Fixation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Something fixed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The position of an operator relative to its operand (prefix, postfix) or operands (infix).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of being incapable of mutation
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: immutability, immutableness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness, unchangingness
Narrower terms: unalterability, agelessness
noun
the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: fastness, fixedness, fixture, secureness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: immovability, immovableness
Narrower terms: lodgment, lodgement, lodging
History
Etymology tree English fix Proto-Indo-European *-teh2 Proto-Indo-European *-ts Proto-Indo-European *-teh2ts Latin -itāsder. Old French -itebor. Middle English -ite English -ity English fixity From fix + -ity.
