fixation
nounUS /fɪksˈeɪʃən/
Etymology From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.
12 senses
- 1The act of fixing.
- 2The state of being fixed or fixated.
- 3The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or…
- 4The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- 5In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or…
- 6A state of mind involving obsession with a particular…
- 7A sexual fetish or turn-on.
- 8Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for…
- 9The change in a gene pool from a situation where there…
- 10preservation of biological tissues from decay due to…
- 11process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
- 12Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either…
The act of fixing.
The state of being fixed or fixated.
The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- Near-synonym: gelling
In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
- Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's transport problems cannot be solved if there is a fixation on profit and loss in public transport—[...].1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
- Near-synonym: obsession
A sexual fetish or turn-on.
Law Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.
- In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.
process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
Engineering, Medicine, Natural sciences, Ophthalmology, Physical sciences, Science, Sciences, Technology Of reading Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either momentarily or prolongedly).
- Derived terms
- carbon fixation, circumfixation, cryofixation, fixational, hyperfixation, immunofixation, interfixation, laterofixation, malfixation, nitrogen fixation, nonfixation, osteofixation, overfixation, postfixation, prefixation, quasifixation, refixation, session fixation, stable fixation, vaginofixation, ventrofixation