(UK) A notice served on an offender by an authorised person, which is usually for committing a minor offence. It requires the offender to pay a fixed fine within a certain period of time, or appeal against it, possibly in court.

Synonym of hard disk drive

plural of fixed disc drive

plural of fixed disk drive

Synonym of hard disk drive

Synonym of put a spoke in someone's wheel (“to thwart or obstruct someone in the execution of some design”)

Alternative form of clean someone's clock

Leave something alone; avoid attempting to correct, fix, or improve what is already sufficient (often with an implication that the attempted improvement is risky and might backfire).

Alternative form of if it ain't broke, don't fix it

(quantum chromodynamics) In quantum chromodynamics with massless flavours, where the number of flavours is sufficiently small (i.e. small enough to guarantee asymptotic freedom, depending on the number of colours), an interacting conformal fixed point of the renormalization group where the value of the coupling is less than one (i.e. one can perform perturbation theory in weak coupling).