unfixed
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unfixed (not comparable)
- Not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely
- 1873, Jules Verne, 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Chapter 1:
- The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef, but a runaway reef, unfixed and elusive.
- 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[1], volume 322, number 5906:
- It was best to use unfixed cells permeabilized in the presence of glycerol and/or low taxol concentration to prevent microtubule depolymerization.
- (of a problem) Not fixed; not corrected.
- 2007, Ben Liblit, Cooperative Bug Isolation: Winning Thesis of the 2005 ACM Doctoral Competition[2]:
- That bug had gone undiagnosed and unfixed for several months due in part to the difficulty of reproducing the problem […]
- 2016, Christopher Pizzino, Arresting Development: Comics at the Boundaries of Literature[3]:
- 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.
- Not fraudulently prearranged.
- 1985, The Business Quarterly, volume 50, page 23:
- Examples include an honest roulette wheel or, at the bottom end of the category, an unfixed horse race.
Translations
[edit]not firmly attached
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Verb
[edit]unfixed
- simple past and past participle of unfix