fixation

Meaning

Noun

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

Related

Similar words

• fixedness

Opposite words

• movement, change

Origin

• From Old French fixation.