Fixed vs Perpetual - What's the difference?
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(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.
Lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time
Set up to be in effect or have tenure for an unlimited duration
Continuing uninterrupted
Flowering throughout the growing season
* By means of artificial hybridization, practised for a series of years, he has succeeded in producing a race of carnations which are perpetual bloomers.
* The hybrid perpetual roses as a rule require to be pruned to within 4 to 6 inches of the ground.
Fixed is a related term of perpetual.
As adjectives the difference between fixed and perpetual
is that fixed is not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same while perpetual is lasting forever, or for an indefinitely long time.As a verb fixed
is (fix).fixed
English
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(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