fixation
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
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engineering
genetics
histology
law
medicine
natural-sciences
ophthalmology
pathology
physical-sciences
science
sciences
technology
Etymology: From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.
Inflected forms:
form: fixations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of fixing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The state of being fixed or fixated.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Near-synonym: gelling
gloss: In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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—[...].
Near-synonym: obsession
gloss: A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either momentarily or prolongedly).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: 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
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: fixació
lang: Finnish
word: fiksaatio
lang: French
word: fixation
lang: Greek
word: προσήλωση
roman: prosílosi
lang: Indonesian
word: fiksasi
lang: Irish
word: fosúchán
lang: Irish
word: greamú
lang: Plautdietsch
word: Besätenheit
lang: Polish
word: fiksacja
lang: Russian
word: одержи́мость
roman: oderžímostʹ
lang: Russian
word: навя́зчивая иде́я
roman: navjázčivaja idéja
lang: Spanish
word: fijación
lang: Spanish
word: afán
lang: Spanish
word: neura
lang: Spanish
word: chifladura
lang: Spanish
word: chifladera
lang: Spanish
word: chaladura