fixture

== English == === Etymology === Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃɚ/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈfɪks.t͡ʃə/ === Noun === fixture (plural fixtures) (law) Something that is fixed in place, especially a permanent appliance or other item of personal property that is considered part of a house and is sold with it; compare fitting, furnishing. A regular patron of a place or institution; a person constantly present at a certain place. A lighting unit; a luminaire. A work-holding or support device used in the manufacturing industry. (sports, chiefly British, Commonwealth, Ireland) A scheduled match. (computing, programming) A state that can be recreated, used as a baseline for running software tests. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== “fixture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “fixture”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Verb === fixture (third-person singular simple present fixtures, present participle fixturing, simple past and past participle fixtured) (transitive) To furnish with, as, or in a fixture. (transitive, sports, Australia, New Zealand) To schedule (a match). == Spanish == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from English fixture. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfiɡst͡ʃuɾ/ [ˈfiɣ̞s.t͡ʃuɾ] Rhymes: -iɡstʃuɾ === Noun === fixture m (plural fixtures) (sports) fixture The whole schedule of games to be played in a championship, indicating when each game is to be played, and which team is to play at home. The whole list of games to be played by a given team, indicating the date of each game, and which team is to play at home. ==== Usage notes ==== According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed. ==== Synonyms ==== calendario, programación