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English
Etymology
Adjective
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, 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.
- 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
not firmly attached
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Verb
unfixed
- simple past and past participle of unfix
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