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

[Variant of obsolete fixure, from Late Latin fīxūra, from Latin fīxus, fixed. See fix.]

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