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The quality of being fixed in place
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fixity
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The state or condition of being fixed. 2 (context countable English) Something fixed.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fixity may refer to:- MV Fixity , an Empire F type coaster in service with F T Everard & Sons 1946-61. USS Fixity (AM-235) , an Admiral Class minesweeper. Operator associativity is also known as Fixity in computing.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fixity \Fix"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. fixit['e].] Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. Coherence of parts. --Sir I. Newton.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Does the fixity on a particular occasion set in as a purely mental act of knowledge? ▪ It was believed that fixity of exchange rates was necessary for the consolidation and development of these achievements. ▪ Second, stability ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s in physics; general use from 1791; see fix (v.) + -ity .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being fixed in place [syn: fastness , fixedness , fixture , secureness ] the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" [syn: immutability , immutableness ] [ant: mutability , mutability ]
Usage examples of fixity.
Their work demystifies structuralism and all the philosophical, sociological, and political conceptions that make the fixity of the epistemological frame an ineluctable point of reference.
Above all, let us strive to disengage ourselves from homogeneous space, this substratum of fixity, this arbitrary scheme of measurement and division, which, to our greater advantage, subtends the natural, qualitative, and undivided extension of images.
West did not touch the problemless Jew, whose inner life had passed into fixity with the completion of the Culture which created this Jewish Church-State-People-Nation.
I can muster for the fundamental notions of fixity that regulate and undergird ordinary perception and thinking.
There are today a few remaining large reptiles on Earth, the most striking of which is the Komodo dragon of Indonesia: cold-blooded, not very bright, but a predator exhibiting a chilling fixity of purpose.
What Taussig calls our culture's "mimetic excess" destabilizes all fixities of signification and power.
His public life, his conduct in the constituent assembly, his independent principles, the nobleness of his sentiments, the wisdom and fixity of his opinions, had gained him the esteem of those who can be depended upon, and with whom it is so agreeable to discuss political interests.
Her gaze fell upon one with a transpiercing fixity: it was the moon gaze through which the dead dragon of life gave off a cold fire.
The stars burned with a lidless fixity and they drew nearer in the night until toward dawn he was stumbling among the whinstones of the uttermost ridge to heaven, a barren range of rock so enfolded in that gaudy house that stars lay awash at his feet and migratory spalls of burning matter crossed constantly about him on their chartless reckonings.