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unfixed

adjective

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adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English fixed English unfixed From un- + fixed.

  1. Not fixated or fixed; moving or changing freely

    The monster again became an islet, rock, or reef, but a runaway reef, unfixed and elusive.

    It was best to use unfixed cells permeabilized in the presence of glycerol and/or low taxol concentration to prevent microtubule depolymerization.

  2. Not fixed; not corrected.

    That bug had gone undiagnosed and unfixed for several months due in part to the difficulty of reproducing the problem […]

    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.

  3. Not fraudulently prearranged.

    Examples include an honest roulette wheel or, at the bottom end of the category, an unfixed horse race.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English fixed English unfixed From un- + fixed.

  1. simple past and past participle of unfix
unfixed — meaning, definition (adjective) · Vinony