Fixed vs Invariable - What's the difference?
fixed | invariable | Related terms |
(fix)
Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same.
Stationary.
Attached; affixed
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Chemically stable.
Supplied with what one needs.
(legal) Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium.
(dialectal, informal) Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated).
Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.
Not variable; unalterable; uniform; always having the same value.
*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
*:Physical laws which are invariable .
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
(lb) Constant.
(rfv-sense) That cannot undergo inflection, conjugation or declension.
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Fixed is a related term of invariable.
As adjectives the difference between fixed and invariable
is that fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same while invariable is not variable; unalterable; uniform; always having the same value.As a verb fixed
is (fix).As a noun invariable is
something that does not vary; a constant.fixed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- fixed assets
- I work fixed''' hours for a '''fixed salary.
- Every religion has its own fixed ideas.
- ''He looked at me with a fixed glare.
- The closest affinities of the Jubulaceae are with the Lejeuneaceae. The two families share in common: (a ) elaters usually 1-spiral, trumpet-shaped and fixed to the capsule valves, distally
- She's nicely fixed after two divorce settlements.
- In the United States, recordings are only granted copyright protection when the sounds in the recording were fixed and first published on or after February 15, 1972.
- a fixed''' tomcat''; the ''she-cat'' has been '''fixed