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fixed-length

[ fikst-lengkth, -length ]

adjective

, Computers.
  1. referring to a field, record, computer word, or other entity whose length does not vary.


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Example Sentences

For a line of fixed length and resistance, hard-drawn copper will weigh about two per cent more than soft copper.

Not until the very end of the T'ang period did there appear the form of a "free" versification, with lines of no fixed length.

We do not know definitely that there was any fixed length for the school-year.

There is no fixed length for the one-act play any more than there is for the short-story.

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