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fixture definition

fix·ture (fiks′c̸hər)

noun

  1. anything firmly in place
  2. 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
  3. any person or thing that has remained in a situation or place so long as to seem fixed there
  4. Chiefly Brit. a well-established, regularly occurring sports or social event

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

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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