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noun

Fixation n.

The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. "An unalterable fixation of resolution." "To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation." "Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint." "A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects."

The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; said of gaseous elements.

The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.

A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; said of metals.

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Etymology of 'Fixation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... presented almost insuperable difficulties, for the wounds had to be dressed two or three times, and however skilfully the splint was arranged, the least movement meant for the patient unendurable agony. After some hesitation we attempted the method of fixation by means of steel plates, which was introduced with such success by Sir Arbuthnot Lane in the case of simple fractures. The missing portion of the bone is replaced by a long steel plate, screwed by means of ...

— A Surgeon in Belgium • Henry Sessions Souttar

... matter was not public, the delinquent was not to be criminated because he did not make it so. Sins committed in secret are to be confessed and mourned only before him who sees in secret. Such seems to have been David's fixation from the time of his fall, till the publication of his guilt, by the prophet; during which term he felt all the horrors of conscious guilt; "God's ...

— Sermons on Various Important Subjects • Andrew Lee

Words linked to "Fixation" : plastination, infantile fixation, preoccupation, abnormalcy, abnormality, histology, fastening, nitrogen fixation, arrested development, fixate, preservation, regression, complement fixation