fixture

Definitions


[ˈfɪkstʃə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a piece of equipment or furniture which is fixed in position in a building or vehicle
(e.g: plumbing fixtures)

- a sporting event arranged to take place on a particular date
(e.g: the team's last away fixture of the season)


Phrases:

Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘fixing, becoming fixed’): alteration (first found in Shakespeare) of obsolete fixure (from late Latin fixura, from Latin figere ‘to fix’), with t inserted on the pattern of mixture




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