fixture

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fixture /ˈfɪkstʃə, -tjə/

▶noun

• 1 a piece of equipment or furniture which is fixed in position in a building or vehicle.

  ■ (fixtures) articles attached to a house or land and considered legally part of it so that they normally remain in place when an owner moves.

  Compare with fitting (sense 2 of the noun).

• 2 informal a person or thing that is well established in a place or situation.

• 3 Brit. a sporting event which takes place on a particular date.

– origin C16: alt. (first found in Shakespeare) of obs. fixure (from late L. fixura, from L. figere ‘to fix’), with t inserted on the pattern of mixture.