
The process of making a molecule biologically active, as in Nitrogen fixation.Fixation (histology), a technique to preserve biological tissue via chemical processes."Fix", an addictive drug, hence "fixing", taking addictive drugs (from the 1960s).Price fixing, an agreement between business competitors to sell the same product or service at the same price.Match fixing, to illegally predetermine the outcome of a sporting event.
Financial Information eXchange also known as "FIX" or "FIX Protocol", a communications and messaging protocol widely deployed in conducting securities transactions produced by FIX Protocol Ltd. "Fix", a song from industrial metal band Static-X's 1999 album Wisconsin Death Trip. "Fix" (Chris Lane song), 2015 song by Chris Lane. Fix (film), a feature film by Tao Ruspoli. Physically, it is essentially two connectors stacked such that the bottom connector accepts a standard USB plug and the top connector takes a power plug. PoweredUSB uses a more complex connector than standard USB, maintaining the standard USB 1.x/ 2.0 interface for data communications and adding a second connector for power. PoweredUSB was licensed by Hewlett-Packard, Cyberdata, Fujitsu, Wincor and others. IBM, who owns patents to PoweredUSB, charges a licensing fee for its use. The specification is not endorsed by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). PoweredUSB, as a proprietary variant of USB, was developed and proposed by IBM, Berg (now FCI), NCR and Microsoft between 19, with the last revision (0.8g) issued in 2004. It is mostly used in point-of-sale equipment, such as receipt printers and barcode readers.
PoweredUSB, also known as Retail USB, USB PlusPower, and USB +Power, is an addition to the Universal Serial Bus standard that allows for higher-power devices to obtain power through their USB host instead of requiring an independent power supply or external AC adapter.