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say it: fikst
fixed is an adjective meaning "(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value". It carries 4 recorded senses.
(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
securely placed or fastened or set
“a fixed piece of wood”
“a fixed resistor”
incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"
“living on fixed incomes”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fixed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.