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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- simple past and past participle of unfix