meaning of fix

1. Fixed; solidified.
2. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
3. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
4. To transfix; to pierce.
5. To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
6. To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
7. To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
8. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
9. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance.
10. A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
11. fettling.
12. FIX 1. Federal Information Exchange. 2. protocol> Financial Information eXchange.
13. fix 1. The fixed point combinator. Called Y in combinatory logic. Fix is a higher-order function which returns a fixed point of its argument which is a function. fix :: a -> a -> a fix f = f fix f Which satisfies the equation fix f = x such that f x = x. Somewhat surprisingly, fix can be defined as the non-recursive lambda abstraction: fix = h . x . h x x x . h x x Since this involves self-application, it has an infinite type. A function defined by f x1 . . xN = E can be expressed as f = fix f . x1 . . . xN . E = f . x1 . . . xN . E fix f . x1 . . . xN . E = let f = fix f . x1 . . . xN . E in x1 . . . xN . E If f does not occur free in E i. e. it is not recursive then this reduces to simply f = x1 . . . xN . E In the case where N = 0 and f is free in E, this defines an infinite data object, e. g. ones = fix ones . 1 : ones = ones . 1 : ones fix ones . 1 : ones = 1 : fix ones . 1 : ones = 1 : 1 : . . . Fix f is also sometimes written as mu f where mu is the Greek letter or alternatively, if f = x . E, written as mu x . E. Compare quine. [Jargon File]
14. a determination of the location of something; "he got a good fix on the ">target"

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