fixed position

collocation in English

meaningsoffixedandposition

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fixed
adjective
uk
/fɪkst/us
/fɪkst/
arranged or decided already and not able to ...
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position
noun
uk
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/us
/pəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the place where something or someone is, often in relation to ...
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(Definition offixedandpositionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffixed position

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Imagine we are observing a stream at afixedposition.
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But it presupposes that the sound source has afixedposition.
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The hypothesis that it is in afixedpositioncould not be firmly validated.
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Sessions were filmed from afixedpositionusing a video camera and a set of mirrors.
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As free combinations of lexical items become periphrastic expressions, the word which becomes grammatical comes to have afixedposition.
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For example, the components may influence each other with fields, or they may touch but not in anyfixedposition.
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That is myfixedposition.
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The eye was stabilized by clamping the syringe in afixedpositionusing a metal clip, metal post, and a magnet.
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The significant feature of this computation is the result that the vortexformation process propagates fast enough to maintain itself a t afixedposition.
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Besides, in some cases posture is understood as a certain relativefixedpositionof humanoid links that move as a whole.
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However, it was demonstrated in the force control section that open-loop force control is effective forfixedpositionforce control.
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With the piston position fixed, the electro-pneumatic valves supply the pneumatic cylinder chambers (constant volume forfixedposition) with air.
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In consecutive response traces, the time windows are placed at afixedpositionin time relative to the onset of the motion bias.
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The parent can use the weight, hunger, age, orfixedpositionof each chick in the nest when picking which one to feed.
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It was convenient to keep the balance in afixedpositionand to move the centre body or the step in the axial direction.
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The laser beam in this case was not expanded, covering a range of 0.5 mm inside the target, at afixedposition.
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A bubble, trapped and held in afixedpositionby an acoustic standing wave, begins to move erratically if a threshold wave amplitude is exceeded.
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It is likely that bacterial cells that are non-motile remain in a relatively morefixedpositionas the medium rotates under a modeled reduced-gravity environment.
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Here we apply this approach to keep the imaging plane at afixedpositionwhile approaching the beads to the cell cortex.
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Afixedpositionpresentation procedure was adopted in this study while many self-paced reading studies use a moving window procedure.
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The new chairman will immediately inherit thatfixedposition.
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They do not adhere to afixedposition.
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