fixed meaning

collocation in English

meaningsoffixedandmeaning

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fixed
adjective
uk
/fɪkst/us
/fɪkst/
arranged or decided already and not able to ...
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meaning
noun
uk
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us
/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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(Definition offixedandmeaningfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffixed meaning

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In a way, sorts define types for values, which is indeed the usual representation of properties offixedmeaningobjects in programming languages.
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What his lament still expressed was a cultural yearning for stability, forfixedmeaning.
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Its components have the samefixedmeaningfor all people who deal with letters before they reach their addressees.
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Really owing to thefixedmeaningof these names letters reach their addressees.
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One operator has afixedmeaning, the equality operator =*.
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Predicates are strings starting with lowercase letters or symbols such as =, <, and > (so-called built-in predicates that have afixedmeaning).
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Some misgiving has been expressed that the courts will tend to give a ratherfixedmeaningto the word "substantial" in relation to the period of six months.
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The free morphemes carry afixedmeaningwhile the bound morphemes exhibit large scale variations in meanings.
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Opponents of the plain meaning rule claim that the rule rests on the erroneous assumption that words have afixedmeaning.
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The same principle applies to a note in a musical arrangement- such elements independently have nofixedmeaningexcept in the context of their entire presentation.
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Lastly, each interrupt line carries only one bit of information with afixedmeaning, namely an event that requires attention has occurred in a device on this interrupt line.
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The signals have afixedmeaningand it is against the rules to use other signals or use false signals (by signalling a hand you do not hold).
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As taxonomic rank is only meaningful as part of a sequence (a biological family has nofixedmeaning on its own), both treatments are technically correct.
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Contemporary literary theory, however, denies the attribution of such fixed meanings.
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Letters in various fonts often have specific, fixed meanings in particular areas of mathematics.
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They are stylized movements and gestures that long established convention invests with fixed meanings.
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The character has not only characteristics, but also unstable connotations because the person has an existence (a name proper) which is external to the characteristics, the fixed meanings.
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His work has been described as being concerned with the discarding of grand narratives and fixed meanings in order to pursue a more fleeting and fragmentary representation of the world.
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