fixation
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fixation (countable and uncountable, plural fixations)
- 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.
- 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.
- 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 218:
- 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—[...].
- (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.
- (genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
- (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
- (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
- (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.
Synonyms
[edit]- (state of being fixed): fixedness
Antonyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]the act of fixing
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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
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the act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm
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in metals, state of resistance to evaporation
a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
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(legal) recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration
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(genetics) The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains
(cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction
References
[edit]Fixation (population genetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fixation f (plural fixations)
- fixation
- Tu ferais bien de vérifier les fixations avant de partir.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- (psychology, informal) fixation, obsession
Further reading
[edit]- “fixation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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