FITMENT

fitment

(noun) any of the items furnishing or equipping a room (especially built-in furniture); “she liked the kitchen fitments”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

fitment (plural fitments)

(archaic) Something that suits or fits.

A thing fitted to another in order to accomplish a specific purpose.

An item of permanent furniture or equipment.

The act of furnishing with fitments; an instance of such an act.

(India) The categorisation of an employee, for the purpose of calculating salary or allowances.

The proper positioning and orientation of a thing for it to serve its designed purpose.

"By God the basin is a good one, and worth a real of eight if it is worth a maravedis," and handed it to his master, who immediately put it on his head, turning it round, now this way, now that, in search of fitment, and not finding it he said, "Clearly the pagan to whose measure this famous head-piece was first forged must have had a very large head; but the worst of it is half of it is wanting."

Source: Wiktionary


Fit"ment, n.

Definition: The act of fitting; that which is proper or becoming; equipment. [Obs.] Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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