fixture

The definition of a fixture is something set firmly in place.

(noun)

An example of a fixture is a bath water faucet.
An example of a fixture is a person who has been the city librarian for thirty years.

See fixture in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

anything firmly in place
any of the fittings or furniture of a house, store, etc. attached to the building and, ordinarily, considered legally a part of it: bathroom fixtures
any person or thing that has remained in a situation or place so long as to seem fixed there
Chiefly Brit. a well-established, regularly occurring sports or social event

Origin: < ME fixure (< LL fixura < L fixus: see fix), altered by analogy with mixture

See fixture in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

Something securely fixed in place.
Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance: plumbing fixtures.
Law A chattel bound to realty.
One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place: a journalist who became a Washington fixture.
a. The act or process of fixing.
b. The condition of being fixed.

Origin:

Origin: Variant of obsolete fixure

Origin: , from Late Latin fīxūra

Origin: , from Latin fīxus, fixed; see fix

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