The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fixed \Fixed\ (f[i^]kst), a.
Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
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(Chem.) Stable; non-volatile.
Fixed air (Old Chem.), carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
Fixed alkali (Old Chem.), a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.
Fixed ammunition (Mil.), a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading.
Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery.
Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc.
Fixed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4.
Fixed fact, a well established fact. [Colloq.]
Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light.
Fixed oils (Chem.), non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not be distilled unchanged; -- distinguished from volatile or essential oils.
Fixed pivot (Mil.), the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels.
Fixed stars (Astron.), such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.
Usage examples of "fixed light".
Not a fixed light, but intermittent and irregular--quite unlike anything I had ever seen.
Now it appeared to be straightening out again ahead and there was a glow on the left-hand bank, one which certainly was not born from any swamp-growth but from a fire or other fixed light.
In desperation I'd said I'd place a fixed light on the shore and that that would serve as a permanent guide.
In desperation I'd said I'd place a fixed light on the shore and that that would serve as a per.
The fixed light on the cabin side might leave the lowermost three feet in darkness, but it was enough for him and he wouldn't want to take even the remote chance of anyone spotting a flickering torchlight and wondering what any crazy person should be doing up on the monkey-board in that hurricane wind and with all the work stopped.