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fixed point

noun

  1. physics a reproducible invariant temperature; the boiling point, freezing point, or triple point of a substance, such as water, that is used to calibrate a thermometer or define a temperature scale
  2. maths a point that is not moved by a given transformation


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Our country is at an intuitive fixed point that may or may not be as far along as we imagined.

It seems so—particularly in those moments where it becomes queasily clear that Klosterman has no fixed point of view.

In the physical universe itself, where is the fixed point upon which material creation is in equilibrium?

Perhaps they will help us to find that "fixed point" which our philosophical ambition asks for.

Strabismus is present when one eye only is directed to the fixed point, while the visual line of the other eye deviates from it.

It is only necessary that he should be able to refer to a fixed point of origin, when the form of the shaft was first perfected.

It would be like the magnet which attracts indiscriminately toward a fixed point all the particles of iron in its vicinity.

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