fixture

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Something securely fixed in place.
2. n. Something attached as a permanent appendage, apparatus, or appliance: plumbing fixtures.
3. n. Law A chattel bound to realty.
4. n. One that is invariably present in and long associated with a place: a journalist who became a Washington fixture.
5. n. The act or process of fixing.
6. n. The condition of being fixed.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fixing, planting, or placing.
2. n. Fixedness; steadfastness.
3. n. A fixed or appointed time or event; a definite arrangement; an appointment: especially used with reference to sports.
4. n. Anything placed in a firm or fixed position; something fixed and not intended to be removed; specifically, that which is fixed to a building; any appendage or part of the furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as by nails, screws, etc.: as, gas-fixtures.
5. n. In law, a personal chattel annexed or fastened to real property. In regard to the right of severance and removal, the term is used in two directly contradictory senses: A chattel so annexed, which has thereby become in law part of the real property, and cannot legally be severed and removed without consent of the owner of the real property. This was the original use.
6. n. A person who or a thing which holds a fixed place or position; one who or a thing which remains so long in one position as to seem immovable.

Wiktionary

1. n. law Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it.
2. n. A regular patron of a place or institution.
3. n. A lighting unit; a luminaire.
4. n. sports A scheduled match.
5. n. computing, programming A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests.
6. n. A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry.
7. v. To furnish with, as, or in a fixture
8. v. sports, Australia, New Zealand To schedule a match

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage
2. n. State of being fixed; fixedness.
3. n. (Law) Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person annexing them, or his personal representatives. In this latter sense, the same things may be fixtures under some circumstances, and not fixtures under others.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)
2. n. the act of putting something in working order again
3. n. a regular patron
4. n. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment