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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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"Fixation" Quotes from Famous Books

... all-important thing is to save and sow the seed of separate individuals separately. However alike they look, the seed from different individuals must on no account be mixed. Provided that due care is taken in this respect no long and tedious process of selection is required for the fixation of any given variety. Every possible variety arising from a cross appears in the F2 generation if only a sufficient {155} number is raised, and of all these different varieties a certain proportion of each is already fixed. Heredity is ...

— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett

... (2.) By a splint supporting the fore-arm and hand, the fingers being held in a semiflexed position by a large pad of cork fastened firmly on to the splint and made to fit the palm; this prevents the splint from slipping up the arm, and by a turn of a bandage insures fixation of the wrist-joint. The anterior part of this splint below the fingers may be gradually shortened, allowing more and more passive motion of the fingers, but the patient must wear it for months, indeed, till he finds his wrist as strong ...

— A Manual of the Operations of Surgery - For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners • Joseph Bell

... when considering the action of chemical substances on pelt (i.e., animal hide, treated with lime, depilated, and the surplus flesh removed). Whereas any true tannage is characterised by the complete penetration of the substance and its subsequent fixation by the pelt in such a way that a thorough soaking and washing will not bring about a reconversion (of the leather) to the pelt state; pickling, on the other hand, is only characterised by the penetration of the substance in the pelt and fixation to such an extent that a subsequent ...

— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser

... many quarters strong expressions of condemnation in principle, of the strike as a method of settlement of wage disputes on the railroads. And in the end the organized laborers themselves accepted, apparently with much satisfaction, a law involving the legal fixation of wages and the principle of compulsion as applied to ...

— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... replied. "You were mentally tired, there was some self-suggestion for sleep. But simply a continued fixation of the eyes in suggestive subjects can be enough. There may be a subconscious association with previous hypnosis, or early states of mental shock. In the highly suggestive, a steady lulling noise can be sufficient in itself. And you were alone, with no one around to snap a finger under your ...

— A Fine Fix • R. C. Noll

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