fixless

English

Etymology

From fix +‎ -less.

Adjective

fixless (comparative more fixless, superlative most fixless)

1. Without a fix (attachment, repair, predicament, etc.); unfixed
   • 1813, Washington Allston, The sylphs of the seasons: with other poems - Page 167:

     And oft upon yon craggy mount, Where threat'ning cliffs hang high, Have I observ'd him stop to count With fixless stare the sky.

   • 1939, Western Construction - Volume 14 - Page 335:

     Two essential elements to public acceptance of the meters are : (1) the use of "fixless" traffic tags, issued in quadruplicate and excused only by the municipal court; and (2) maintenance of the meters in first class operating condition at all times.

   • 1984, James Pirie Hart, A Lagrangian Relaxation and Branch-and-bound Procedure for Solving Problems with Workload Balancing Constraints:

     The fixless algorithm increments by integer parameter n both the less fields of those ancestors or (pointer parameter) node p which have p as a left-descendant, and the size of the tree. Integer n may be negative, as after a deletion.