fixed — adjective a) Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. fixed assets b) Stationary. I work fixed hours for a fixed salary … Wiktionary
Fixed Penalty Notice — Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) were introduced in Great Britain in the 1950s to deal with minor parking offences. Originally used by police and traffic wardens, their use has extended to other public officials and authorities, as has the range of… … Wikipedia
Fixed verse — forms are a kind of template or formula that poetry can be composed in. The converse of fixed verse is Free Verse poetry, which by design has little or no pre established guidelines.The various poetic forms, such as meter, rhyme scheme, and… … Wikipedia
fixed overhead capacity variance — capacity usage variance; = idle capacity variance In a system of standard costing, the difference arising between the actual hours worked and the budgeted capacity available, valued at the standard fixed overhead absorption rate per hour. It can… … Accounting dictionary
Fixed base operator — In the aviation industry, a fixed base operator (also known as fixed base of operation), or FBO, is a service center at an airport that may be a private enterprise or may be a department of the municipality that the airport serves. The term is… … Wikipedia
Fixed Survey Meter — The Fixed Survey Meter was a specialist detection instrument used by the Royal Observer Corps during the Cold War between 1958 and 1982 to detect ionising radiation from nuclear fallout generated by a ground burst. [… … Wikipedia
fixed overhead absorption rate — The budgeted fixed overheads divided by the budgeted standard hours, budgeted production in units, or other budgeted production measure. See: absorption rate … Accounting dictionary
fixed overhead efficiency variance — In a system of standard costing, the difference arising between the actual labour hours worked and the standard time allowed for the quantity actually produced, valued at the standard fixed overhead absorption rate per hour. See: overhead… … Accounting dictionary
fixed salary — predetermined employment wage, salary whose total is unaffected by the number of hours worked … English contemporary dictionary
Canonical hours — Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday. Canonical hours are divisions of time which serve as increments between the prescribed prayers of the daily round. A Book of Hours contains such a set of prayers. In western Catholicism,… … Wikipedia
Liturgy of the Hours — in a monastery of Carthusian nuns. This article refers to the Liturgy of the Hours as a specific manifestation of the public prayer of the Catholic Church. For its application in other communions, see canonical hours. The Liturgy of the Hours… … Wikipedia