noun
Meaning 1
The act of fixing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: movement, change
Standard Lemma guide
fixation
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /fɪksˈeɪʃən/
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rhymes with -eɪʃən
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CMU ARPABET: F IH0 K S EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The state of being fixed or fixated.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fixedness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonym: gelling
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: freezing, gelling
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Near-synonym: obsession
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: obsession
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.
A sexual fetish or turn-on.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: obsession
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, cytology, histology, medicine, natural-sciences, pathology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either momentarily or prolongedly).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, medicine, natural-sciences, ophthalmology, physical-sciences, science, sciences, technology
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fixing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: preservation
noun
Meaning 14
the activity of fastening something firmly in position
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fastening, attachment
noun
Meaning 15
an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: obsession
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: preoccupation
noun
Meaning 16
an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: arrested development, infantile fixation, regression
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abnormality, abnormalcy
History
Etymology
From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: закрепване (zakrepvane) — the act of fixing
- Catalan: fixació — the act of fixing
- Catalan: fixament — the act of fixing
- Finnish: kiinnittäminen — the act of fixing
- French: fixation — the act of fixing
- German: Fixierung — the act of fixing
- Greek: στερέωμα (steréoma) — the act of fixing
- Hungarian: megjavítás — the act of fixing
- Japanese: 固定 (kotei) — the act of fixing
- Romanian: fixare — the act of fixing
- Russian: закрепле́ние (zakreplénije) — the act of fixing
- Russian: свя́зывание (svjázyvanije) — the act of fixing
- Russian: фикса́ция (fiksácija) — the act of fixing
- Spanish: fijación — the act of fixing
- Finnish: kiinnittyminen — the state of being fixed or fixated
- French: fixation — the state of being fixed or fixated
- German: Fixierung — the state of being fixed or fixated
- Romanian: fixare — the state of being fixed or fixated
- Bulgarian: сгъстяване (sgǎstjavane) — the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition
- Bulgarian: втвърдяване (vtvǎrdjavane) — the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition
- Finnish: fikseeraus — the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition
- Irish: fosúchán — the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition
- Irish: fosú — the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition
- Russian: свя́зывание (svjázyvanije) — the act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition
- Finnish: jähmettyminen — the act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm
- Catalan: fixació — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Finnish: fiksaatio — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- French: fixation — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Greek: προσήλωση (prosílosi) — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Indonesian: fiksasi — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Irish: fosúchán — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Irish: greamú — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Plautdietsch: Besätenheit — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Polish: fiksacja — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Russian: одержи́мость (oderžímostʹ) — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Russian: навя́зчивая иде́я (navjázčivaja idéja) — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Spanish: fijación — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Spanish: afán — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Spanish: neura — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Spanish: chifladura — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Spanish: chifladera — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Spanish: chaladura — a state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea or thing
- Finnish: tallentaminen — (legal) recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration
- Indonesian: fiksasi — (cytology, histology, pathology) preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction
- Indonesian: fiksasi — (orthopaedics) immobilization of injury
- Indonesian: fiksasi — (ophthalmology) maintaining of the gaze on a single location