fixed link

noun

a permanent transport link, esp a bridge, between two geographical areas separated by water

In a five-bar chain, if a is a point in a link non-adjacent to a fixed link, its path is indeterminate.

The two links concerned are the last wheel t and the arm s, the wheel r being the fixed link of the mechanism.

He was first to recognize that the fixed link of a mechanism was kinematically the same as the movable links.

The fixed link was not counted by Sylvester; in modern parlance this would be a six-link mechanism.

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