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1Fixed Penalty Notice — Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) were introduced in Great Britain in the 1950s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their use has extended to other public officials and authorities, as has the range of… …
2Fixed investment — in economics refers to investment in fixed capital, i.e. tangible capital goods (real means of production or residential buildings), or to the replacement of depreciated capital goods. Thus, fixed investment is investment in physical assets such… …
3fixed — W3S3 [fıkst] adj 1.) [not before noun] firmly fastened to a particular position fixed to/in/on ▪ a mirror fixed to the bathroom wall 2.) fixed times, amounts, meanings etc cannot be changed = ↑set ▪ The classes begin and end at fixed times. ▪… …
4fixed wireless — ˌfixed ˈwireless noun [uncountable] COMPUTING a piece of electronic equipment, such as a computer or a telephone, that usually stays in the same place, and which is connected to other telephones, computers etc without wires * * * fixed wireless… …
5Fixed Repeating Schedule — is a key element of the Toyota Production System and Lean Manufacturing. As its name suggests it is a production schedule which is unchanging and repeated perhaps daily or over a longer period such as a fortnight or month. If it can be… …
6Fixed prosthodontics — in dentistry is a technique used to restore teeth, using fixed restorations (also referred to as indirect restorations), which include crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, and veneers. Prosthodontists are specialist dentists who have undertaken… …
7Fixed rope — is the practice of fixing in place bolted ropes to assist climbers and walkers in exposed mountain locations. They are used widely on American and European climbing routes but disdained by purist mountaineers. Many guided expeditions to any of… …
8place — n Place, position, location, situation, site, spot, station are comparable when they mean the point or portion of space occupied by or chosen for a thing. Place, the most general of these terms, carries as its basic implication the idea of… …
9Fixed exchange-rate system — Foreign exchange Exchange rates Currency band Exchange rate Exchange rate regime Exchange rate flexibil …
10Fixed-point combinator — Y combinator redirects here. For the technology venture capital firm, see Y Combinator (company). In computer science, a fixed point combinator (or fixpoint combinator[1] ) is a higher order function that computes a fixed point of other functions …
