Fixation

Quick meaning: Fixation is a noun meaning The act of fixing.

Meaning

The act of fixing.

More Meanings

1. The state of being fixed or fixated.
2. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
3. In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
4. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
5. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
6. (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.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

Near-synonym: gelling

Near-synonym: obsession

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.

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—[...].

Word Forms

• fixations

Synonyms for fixation

Depending on context, synonyms include fixedness, freezing, gelling, obsession, regression, fixing.

Antonyms for fixation

Common opposites include movement, change.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fixing, regression, obsession, determination, retention, mounting.

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