kiinteäpituisten

Kiinteäpituisten is a Finnish grammatical form used to refer to a set of items that share a fixed length. The base adjective kiinteäpituinen literally means “having a fixed length,” formed from kiinteä (fixed) and pituus (length) with the common -inen suffix. The word kiinteäpituisten is the genitive plural form, used to connect to a head noun in phrases such as kiinteäpituisten kappaleiden pituus, meaning “the length of the fixed-length pieces.”

In use, kiinteäpituinen describes measurements, components, or sequences whose length is predetermined and does not vary with context. The term is common in technical, engineering, and mathematical Finnish, as well as in data processing and manufacturing where standard lengths are defined by design or specification. Its inflected form kiinteäpituisten enables the expression of possession or association, for example in kiinteäpituisten kappaleiden pituus (the length of the fixed-length pieces) or kiinteäpituisten komponenttien standardointi (the standardization of fixed-length components).

Typical contexts include design documents, production specifications, and analytic discussions where consistency of length is important. While kiinteäpituinen is used to describe a single fixed length, kiinteäpituisten operates at the level of multiple items or categories, linking their shared property to a noun. The concept emphasizes predictability and uniformity in length across a set of objects or data.

See also: kiinteä, pituus, adjektiivinen taivutus, Finnish technical vocabulary.