Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of fixing or fixating.
- n. An obsessive preoccupation.
- n. Psychology A strong attachment to a person or thing, especially such an attachment formed in childhood or infancy and manifested in immature or neurotic behavior that persists throughout life.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of fixing.
- n. The state of being fixed; a fixed, firm, or stable condition; stability; firmness; steadiness.
- n. Fixed or certain position or location.
- n. Specifically The act or process by which a fluid or a gas becomes or is rendered firm or stable in consistency, and evaporation or volatilization prevented, or by which colors are rendered permanent or lasting; specifically, in chem., that process by which a gaseous body becomes fixed or solid on uniting with a solid body.
- n. Firmness or stableness of consistency; that firm state of a body in which it resists evaporation or volatilization by heat: as, the fixation of gold or other metals.
- n. Attachment: adhesion: as, various parasites have organs for fixation.
- n. In psychological and physiological optics, the act or process of directing the eyes upon some object, and of maintaining this direction during the time required for observation; the bringing of a retinal image into and holding it upon the area of direct vision.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed or fixated.
- n. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
- n. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- n. In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
- n. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
- n. 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.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.
- n. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.
- n. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
- n. A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
- n. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
- n. the activity of fastening something firmly in position
- n. (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
Etymologies
- From Old French fixation. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“April 15th, 2010 at 6: 35 pm tombaker says: label fixation is the hallmark of petty minds the world over.”
“I will never understand what the fixation is about constant attacks on Palin.”
Christie, McDonnell explain Palin's absence from campaign trail
“Bander attributes this to what he calls "fixation order," or the order of what people look at when they enter the site.”
“CNN whats with the Sarah Palin fixation? shes and idiot and so are you for keeping her in the limelight.”
“The Big Rocket fixation is what will keep NASA human spaceflight stuck on Earth for the next half decade or more.”
“PS - I'm kinda over the whole Megan Fox thing, but your fixation is curious.”
“This quantity is known as the fixation probability of a new mutant.”
“All these years later, his oral fixation is still being used on man parts.”
“America's business leaders need to drop their short-term fixation on immediate profits and, instead, focus on their companies 'long-term performance, recognizing that doing so also includes the long-term well-being of their employees and the communities in which those employees live.”
The Huffington Post: Charles Kolb: The Value(s) of Wall Street
“I'm not sure why you assume this particular combination of (reciprocal) sodomy directly followed by (reciprocal) fellatio to be the norm, unless perhaps your fixation is indicative of some particular and specific fantasy on your part, a revulsion that is simultaneously fascination, a focus of attention betraying some sort of interest repressed to the point of neurotic obsession.”
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