fitment

Noun

fitment (countable and uncountable, plural fitments)

1. A thing fitted to another in order to accomplish a specific purpose.
   • Bottles also usually incorporate a fitment, which provides a pouring spout.2009, Uri Tsoler, Handbook of Detergents, volume 121, page 300
2. An item of permanent furniture or equipment.
   • Poor Mole! The Life Adventurous was so new a thing to him, and so thrilling; and this fresh aspect of it was so tempting; and he had fallen in love at first sight with the canary-coloured cart and all its little fitments.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC
   • There might have been no planking beneath the mould, for all that our feet could feel. It gave under our tread with a spongy, puddingy feel. It covered the deck furniture of the old ship, so that the shape of each article and fitment was often no more than suggested through it.1912, William Hope Hodgson, The Derelict
3. The act of furnishing with fitments; an instance of such an act.
   • Upon such an indictment against the owner, charging him with fitting out the ship with intent to employ her in the illegal voyage, evidence is admissible, that he commanded, authorized, and superintended the fitment, through the instrumentality of his agents, without being personally present.1910, United States Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court reports, volumes 22-25
4. The proper positioning and orientation of a thing for it to serve its designed purpose.
   • He told Sancho to pick up the helmet, and he taking it in his hands said:
     "By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it is worth a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in search of fitment, and not...1885, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, Don Quixote
5. (India) The categorisation of an employee, for the purpose of calculating salary or allowances.
   • As already stated, the Wage Board had recommended revised wage scales, revised categories and fitment of workmen in their respective categories on the revised wage scales as from November 1, 1960.1969, India Supreme Court, Indian Factories and Labour Reports, volume 19
6. (archaic) Something that suits or fits.
   • I am, sir,
     The soldier that did company these three
     In poor beseeming; 'twas a fitment for
     The purpose I then follow'd.1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...