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Fixation

noun

An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely. Synonyms: arrested development, infantile fixation, regression.

An unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone. Synonym: obsession.

The activity of fastening something firmly in position.

(histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body. Synonym: fixing.

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"Fixation" Quotes from Famous Books

... peculiar stability and completeness to the life of the Jew as an individual and as a member of Jewish society, and it was the same exclusiveness that afforded opportunity for the development of a sharply defined culture, for its fixation to the point of resisting violent shocks and beyond the danger point of extinction ...

— Jewish History • S. M. Dubnow

... oxygen of the atmosphere by the passage of electric sparks; but heretofore, the quantity so found has been too small to be of any commercial value. Quite recently, however, one of the electro-chemical companies at Niagara Falls has succeeded in commercially solving the important problem of the fixation of the nitrogen of the atmosphere; it being claimed that the cost of thus producing one ton of commercial nitric acid, of a market value of over eighty dollars, does not greatly exceed twenty dollars. Since sodium nitrate can readily be produced by the process, and its value ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIV • John Lord

Words linked to "Fixation" : fastening, histology, abnormalcy, abnormality, fixate, attachment, preoccupation, plastination, preservation