unfixed
unfixed adjective: not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely. Also the simple past and past participle of unfix.
Adjective
unfixed (not comparable)
- Not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely
- The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef, but a runaway reef, unfixed and elusive.1873, Jules Verne, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 1
- It was best to use unfixed cells permeabilized in the presence of glycerol and/or low taxol concentration to prevent microtubule depolymerization.2008 November 28, Ariane Dimitrov et al., “Detection of GTP-Tubulin Conformation in Vivo Reveals a Role for GTP Remnants in Microtubule Rescue”, in Science, volume 322, number 5906
- Not fixed; not corrected.
- That bug had gone undiagnosed and unfixed for several months due in part to the difficulty of reproducing the problem […]2007, Ben Liblit, Cooperative Bug Isolation: Winning Thesis of the 2005 ACM Doctoral Competition
- There is no general, unfixed problem of exclusion as such, only specific instances with specific causes, which can or cannot be cured by specific means in this or that instance.2016, Christopher Pizzino, Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
- Not fraudulently prearranged.
- Examples include an honest roulette wheel or, at the bottom end of the category, an unfixed horse race.1985, The Business Quarterly, volume 50, page 23
Also used as
unfixed is also the simple past and past participle of unfix.
Origin of unfixed
From un- + fixed.
Words formed from unfixed
Questions about unfixed
- What does unfixed mean?
- Unfixed means not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely.
- What part of speech is unfixed?
- Unfixed is an adjective.
Words near unfixed in the dictionary
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