fixation – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
fixation
n.
act of fixating; stabilizing; focusing on; fixing in place; arrest of emotional development; obsession
Fixation
Fixation may refer to:
- Fixation (psychology), the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, an animal, or an inanimate object
- Fixation (alchemy), a process in the alchemical magnum opus
- Fixation (histology) in biochemistry, histology, cell biology and pathology, the technique of preserving a specimen for microscopic study
- Fixation (population genetics), the state when every individual in a population has the same allele at a particular locus
- Fixation (surgical), an operative technique in orthopedics
- Fixation (visual) maintaining the gaze in a constant direction
- Fixation agent, a process chemical
- Carbon fixation, a biochemical process, usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into organic compounds
- Nitrogen fixation, a process by which nitrogen is converted from its inert molecular form to a compound more readily available and useful to living organisms
fixation
Noun
1. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely
(synonym) arrested development, infantile fixation, regression
(hypernym) abnormality, abnormalcy, abnormal condition
2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone
(synonym) obsession
(hypernym) preoccupation
(derivation) fixate
3. the activity of fastening something firmly in position
(hypernym) fastening, attachment
(derivation) fixate, fix
4. (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
(hypernym) preservation
(part-holonym) plastination
(derivation) fixate, fix
(classification) histology
fixation
nf.
fixing, attachment, binding; determination, fixture
fixation
n.
fixace (na co); přílišné zaujetí
