AFFIXED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does affixed mean? 

• AFFIXED (adjective)
  The adjective AFFIXED has 1 sense:

1. firmly attached

  Familiarity information: AFFIXED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AFFIXED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Firmly attached

Context example:

the affixed labels

Similar:

appendant (affixed as an appendage)

basifixed (attached by its base (as certain anthers to their filaments or stalks))

glued; pasted (affixed or as if affixed with glue or paste)

mounted (assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support)

Antonym:

unaffixed (not affixed)

 Context examples 

A piece of glass or plastic on which different samples have been affixed at separate locations in an ordered manner thus forming a microscopic array.

(Microarray, NCI Thesaurus)

The door was then thrown open, and the general population began to come in, in a long file: several waiting outside, while one entered, affixed his signature, and went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

An orderly array of DNA samples affixed to a support.

(DNA Microarray Chip, NCI Thesaurus)

Marianne's pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of; and Elinor's drawings were affixed to the walls of their sitting room.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Rochester had himself written the direction, "Mrs. Rochester, — Hotel, London," on each: I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

An internal radiation treatment technique in which radioactive seeds are embedded in suture material and directly affixed to target cancerous tissue.

(Double Strand Brachytherapy, NCI Thesaurus)

You will betray your feelings improperly, if you are too conscious and too quick, and appear to affix more meaning, or even quite all the meaning which may be affixed to it.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Serum is incubated with vital protein that have been gel separated and affixed to a membrane.

(HIV Western Blot, NCI Thesaurus)

Issue associated with the written, printed or graphic material that is affixed to a medical device or any of its containers or wrappers or accompanying the device including verbal instructions, relating to identification, technical description, and usage which are provided by the device manufacturers.

(Medical Device Markings Issue, Food and Drug Administration)

Issue associated with inaccuracies in any written, printed, or graphic matter that is affixed to a medical device or its containers, wrappers; with any matter that accompanies a medical device including verbal instructions related to identification, technical description and use of the medical device provided by the device manufacturers.

(Incorrect Instruction for Medical Device Use, Food and Drug Administration)