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fixture 1. Property law an article attached to land and regarded as part of it 2. a device to secure a workpiece in a machine tool 3. Chiefly Brit a sports match or social occasion fixture [′fiks·chər] (civil engineering) An object permanently attached to a structure, such as a light or sink. (mechanical engineering) A device used to hold and position a piece of work without guiding the cutting tool. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| After the wonderful success of "Ozma of Oz" it is evident that Dorothy has become a firm fixture in these Oz stories. Yet this incessant movement and progression which all things partake could never become sensible to us but by contrast to some principle of fixture or stability in the soul. It stood nearly beneath the eaves of Boston's earliest church, and appeared to be a fixture there. |
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