fixless

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adjective

Without a fix (attachment, repair, predicament, etc.); unfixed

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivefixless (comparative more fixless, superlative most fixless)

comparative more fixless · superlative most fixless

  1. Without a fix (attachment, repair, predicament, etc.); unfixed

    And oft upon yon craggy mount, Where threat'ning cliffs hang high, Have I observ'd him stop to count With fixless stare the sky.

    1813, Washington Allston, The sylphs of the seasons: with other poems - Page 167
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    Two essential elements to public acceptance of the meters are : (1) the use of "fixless" traffic tags, issued in quadruplicate and excused only by the municipal court; and (2) maintenance of the meters in first class operating condition at all times.

    1939, Western Construction - Volume 14 - Page 335

    The fixless algorithm increments by integer parameter n both the less fields of those ancestors or (pointer parameter) node p which have p as a left-descendant, and the size of the tree. Integer n may be negative, as after a deletion.

    1984, James Pirie Hart, A Lagrangian Relaxation and Branch-and-bound Procedure for Solving Problems with Workload Balancing Constraints

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