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fixity

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fixity [′fik·səd·ē]
(civil engineering)
continuity
depth of fixity
The depth below ground level at which the soil firmly holds a pile.
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In the code of military etiquette silence and fixity are forms of deference.
An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The discovery of these laws is only possible when possible when we have quite abandoned the attempt to find the cause in the will of some one man, just as the discovery of the laws of the motion of the planets was possible only when men abandoned the conception of the fixity of the earth.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
His face in the moonlight showed a pallor and fixity inexpressibly distressing.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
 
 
 
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