Fixity

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being fixed.
  • noun. Something fixed or immovable.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being fixed; fixed character; fixedness; stability: as, fixity of tenure.
  • noun. Specifically In physics, the state or property of a body in virtue of which it resists change under the action of heat or other cause.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Fixedness; ; also, that which is fixed.
  • noun. Coherence of parts.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The state of being fixed
  • noun. Something fixed
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of being incapable of mutation
  • noun. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
  • Word Usage
    "It may be that, on the whole, the idea of fixity prevailed more among thinkers with a religious bias; but for the most part the theories were debated independently of the tenets of any faith, Christian or other."
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