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  1. transitive verb To place securely; make stable or firm: fixed the tent poles in the ground. See Synonyms at fasten.
  2. transitive verb To secure to another; attach: fixing the notice to the board with tacks.
  3. transitive verb To put into a stable or unalterable form: tried to fix the conversation in her memory.
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  • An intermittent fault, by it's very nature, isn't regular or predictable, so if it occurs right after a fix is attempted, that will tell you that the fix didn't work, but otherwise you have to wait a long, long time before one has some confidence that the problem really was fixed In addition, it seems to be something in human (or group?) —  Magazine - Analog Science Fiction and Fact - 2007 - Issue 04 - April
  • They told me the fix was already in Did you have contact with anyone in Gordon's organization besides the gofer and Haddon Well, Russ Zola's name came up a couple of times, but I never talked to him. —  Muller, Marcia - [15] Till the Butchers cut him down.htm
  • Doing the fix was a little scary, so I can understand why HP doesn't really want people doing this. —  The Gadgeteer
  • I, for one, do not plan to use MobileMe, Push or the App Store on the iPhone until this fix is available from Apple. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • I hope a fix is here soon because almost all of the functionality of my phone is in limbo right now. —  Discussions: Message List - root
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English fixen, from fix, fixed in position, from Latin fīxus, past participle of fīgere, to fasten; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English fixer, fix, fasten (resting on fix, adjective, fixed), = German fixiren = Danish fixere = Swedish fixera = French fixer (Old French *fixer not in use, but ficher, fichier, whence the common Middle English fitchen, fichen, fix, fasten: see fitch) = Spanish fijar = Portuguese fixar = Italian fissare, fix one's eyes upon, gaze upon, from Middle Latin fixare, fix, fasten, freq. of Latin figere, past participle fixus, fix, fasten, drive or thrust in, transfix, pierce.
  2. Middle English fix, adjective, = Danish Swedish fix, from Old French fixe, French fixe = Provencal fix = Spanish fijo = Portuguese fixo = Italian fisso, from Latin fixus, fixed, past participle of figere: see fix, v.
  3. from fix, v.
 

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