fixation

English

Etymology

From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /fɪksˈeɪʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

fixation (countable and uncountable, plural fixations)

1. The act of fixing.
2. The state of being fixed or fixated.
4. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
5. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
6. In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
8. A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
   • 1962 October, “The Victoria Line”, in Modern Railways, page 218:

     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—[...].

   1. A sexual fetish or turn-on; something one seeks in a romantic partner, often rejecting partners without the characteristic.
9. (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.

   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.

10. (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.
11. (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
12. (orthopaedics) process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
13. (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location.

Synonyms

• (state of being fixed): fixedness

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “act of fixing”): movement, change

Derived terms

• carbon fixation
• circumfixation
• cryofixation
• fixational
• hyperfixation
• immunofixation
• interfixation
• laterofixation
• malfixation
• nitrogen fixation
• nonfixation
• osteofixation
• overfixation
• postfixation
• prefixation
• quasifixation
• refixation
• session fixation
• vaginofixation
• ventrofixation

 

Translations

act of fixing

• Bulgarian: закрепване n (zakrepvane)
• Finnish: kiinnittäminen (fi)
• French: fixation (fr) f
• German: Fixierung (de) f
• Greek: στερέωμα (el) n (steréoma)
• Hungarian: megjavítás (hu)
• Japanese: 固定 (ja) (kotei)
• Romanian: fixare (ro) f
• Russian: закрепле́ние (ru) f (zakreplénije), свя́зывание (ru) n (svjázyvanije), фикса́ция (ru) f (fiksácija)

state of being fixed or fixated

• Finnish: kiinnittyminen (fi)
• French: fixation (fr) f
• German: Fixierung (de) f
• Romanian: fixare (ro) f

act of uniting chemically in a solid form

• Bulgarian: сгъстяване (bg) n (sgǎstjavane), втвърдяване (bg) n (vtvǎrdjavane)
• Finnish: fikseeraus
• Irish: fosúchán m, fosú m
• Russian: свя́зывание (ru) n (svjázyvanije)

act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm

• Finnish: jähmettyminen (fi)

state of resistance to evaporation

state of mind involving obsession

• Catalan: fixació (ca) f
• Finnish: fiksaatio
• French: fixation (fr) f
• Greek: προσήλωση (el) f (prosílosi)
• Indonesian: fiksasi (id)
• Irish: fosúchán m, greamú m
• Plautdietsch: Besätenheit f
• Polish: fiksacja (pl) f
• Russian: одержи́мость (ru) f (oderžímostʹ), навя́зчивая иде́я f (navjázčivaja idéja)
• Spanish: obsesión (es) f

(legal) recording a creative work

• Finnish: tallentaminen (fi)

(genetics)

(cytology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues

• Indonesian: fiksasi (id)

(orthopaedics) immobilization of injury

• Indonesian: fiksasi (id)

(ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location

• Indonesian: fiksasi (id)

References

Fixation (population genetics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From fixer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fik.sa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

fixation f (plural fixations)

1. fixation

   Tu ferais bien de vérifier les fixations avant de partir.

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2. (psychology, informal) fixation, obsession

   Synonyms: fixette, obsession

Further reading

• “fixation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.