Other forms: fixtures
A fixture is something fixed in place as part of a building. A bath, a boiler, a fitted cupboard.
The distinction from fittings is genuinely important when a house is sold, since fixtures are attached and stay, while fittings can be unscrewed and taken away, and arguments about light fittings have delayed a great many completions. Sport has an unrelated sense, since a fixture is a scheduled match and a fixture list is the season's programme. There is also a warm use for a person who has been somewhere so long they are part of the place.
Alteration of older fixure, on the model of mixture.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Repair & Damage
First appears in chapter 27 of A Man Called Ove.
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