dead calm vs fixed

dead calm

• Completely still with no waves and no wind. 

• The condition of a perfectly flat sea with no waves and no wind. 

fixed

• Not changing, not able to be changed, staying the same. 

• Of sound, recorded on a permanent medium. 

• Resolved; corrected. 

• Surgically rendered infertile (spayed, neutered or castrated). 

• Repaired 

• Attached; affixed. 

• Chemically stable. 

• Supplied with what one needs. 

• Stationary. 

• Rigged; fraudulently prearranged.