fixed capital
 固定資本
 cap·i·tal n.
 1. Arch. The head or uppermost member of a column, pilaster, etc.  It consists generally of three parts, abacus, bell (or vase), and necking.  See these terms, and Column.
 2.  Geog. The seat of government; the chief city or town in a country; a metropolis. “A busy and splendid capital”
 3.  Money, property, or stock employed in trade, manufactures, etc.; the sum invested or lent, as distinguished from the income or interest. See Capital stock, under Capital, a.
 4. Polit. Econ. That portion of the produce of industry, which may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production.
 Note: ☞ When wealth is used to assist production it is called capital.  The capital of a civilized community includes fixed capital (i.e. buildings, machines, and roads used in the course of production and exchange) and circulating capital (i.e., food, fuel, money, etc., spent in the course of production and exchange).
 5. Anything which can be used to increase one's power or influence.
    He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture.   --London Times.
 6. Fort. An imaginary line dividing a bastion, ravelin, or other work, into two equal parts.
 7. A chapter, or section, of a book. [Obs.]
    Holy St. Bernard hath said in the 59th capital.   --Sir W. Scott.
 8. Print. See Capital letter, under Capital, a.
 Active capital. See under Active,
 Small capital Print., a small capital letter; informally referred to (in the plural) as small caps; as, the technical terms are listed in small caps. See under Capital, a.
 To live on one's capital, to consume one's capital without producing or accumulating anything to replace it.
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 Fixed a.
 1. Securely placed or fastened; settled; established; firm; imovable; unalterable.
 2. Chem. Stable; non-volatile.
 Fixed air Old Chem., carbonic acid or carbon dioxide; -- so called by Dr. Black because it can be absorbed or fixed by strong bases. See Carbonic acid, under Carbonic.
 Fixed alkali Old Chem., a non-volatile base, as soda, or potash, in distinction from the volatile alkali ammonia.
 Fixed ammunition Mil., a projectile and powder inclosed together in a case ready for loading.
 Fixed battery Mil., a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery.
 Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc.
 Fixed capital. See the Note under Capital, n., 4.
 Fixed fact, a well established fact. [Colloq.]
 Fixed light, one which emits constant beams; -- distinguished from a flashing, revolving, or intermittent light.
 Fixed oils Chem., non-volatile, oily substances, as stearine and olein, which leave a permanent greasy stain, and which can not be distilled unchanged; -- distinguished from volatile or essential oils.
 Fixed pivot Mil., the fixed point about which any line of troops wheels.
 Fixed stars Astron., such stars as always retain nearly the same apparent position and distance with respect to each other, thus distinguished from planets and comets.
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