Fixity

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fixity \Fix"i*ty\ (-[i^]*t[y^]), n. [Cf. F. fixit['e].]
     1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is
        fixed.
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     2. Coherence of parts. --Sir I. Newton.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fixity
       n 1: the quality of being fixed in place [syn: {fastness}, {fixedness},
             {fixture}, {secureness}]
       2: the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin
          challenged the fixity of species" [syn: {immutability}, {immutableness}]
          [ant: {mutability}, {mutability}]