| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | fix·ture |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  f ks ch r |
| NOUN: | 1. Something securely fixed in place. 2. Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance: plumbing fixtures. 3. Law A chattel bound to realty. 4. One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place: a journalist who became a Washington fixture. 5a. The act or process of fixing. b. The condition of being fixed. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Variant of obsolete fixure, from Late Latin f x ra, from Latin fxus, fixed. See fix.
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