Fixation
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Fixation may refer to the following:
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In business and law:
In online marketing
In science:
- Fixation (psychology)Fixation (psychology)Fixation: 'concept originated by Sigmund Freud to denote the persistence of anachronistic sexual traits'. Subsequently '"Fixation" acquired a broader connotation...
, the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, an animal, or an inanimate object - Fixation (visual)Fixation (visual)Fixation or visual fixation is the maintaining of the visual gaze on a single location. Humans typically alternate saccades and visual fixations, the notable exception being in smooth pursuit, controlled by a different neural substrate that appear to have developed for hunting prey...
maintaining the gaze in a constant direction - Fixation (alchemy)Fixation (alchemy)Fixation in alchemy refers to a process by which a previously volatile substance is "transformed" into a form that is not affected by fire...
, a process in the alchemical magnum opusMagnum opus (alchemy)The Great Work is an alchemical term for the process of creating the philosopher's stone. It has been used to describe personal and spiritual transmutation in the Hermetic tradition, attached to laboratory processes and chemical color changes, used as a model for the individuation process, and as... - Carbon fixationCarbon fixationIn biology, carbon fixation is the reduction of carbon dioxide to organic compounds by living organisms. The obvious example is photosynthesis. Carbon fixation requires both a source of energy such as sunlight, and an electron donor such as water. All life depends on fixed carbon. Organisms that...
, a biochemical process, usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into organic compounds - Nitrogen fixationNitrogen fixationNitrogen fixation is the natural process, either biological or abiotic, by which nitrogen in the atmosphere is converted into ammonia . This process is essential for life because fixed nitrogen is required to biosynthesize the basic building blocks of life, e.g., nucleotides for DNA and RNA and...
, a process by which nitrogen is converted from its inert molecular form to a compound more readily available and useful to living organisms - Fixation (population genetics)Fixation (population genetics)In population genetics, fixation is the change in a gene pool from a situation where there exist at least two variants of a particular gene to a situation where only one of the alleles remains...
, the state when every individual in a population has the same allele at a particular locus - Fixation (histology)Fixation (histology)In the fields of histology, pathology, and cell biology, fixation is a chemical process by which biological tissues are preserved from decay, thereby preventing autolysis or putrefaction...
in biochemistry, histology, cell biology and pathology, the technique of preserving a specimen for microscopic study - Fixation agentFixation agentA fixation agent is a chemical that is capable to fixate one substance to another substance that the first substance have little affinity to.-Pulp and paper production:...
is a process chemical
In business and law:
- Fixation in businessBusinessA business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
refers to a company's reluctance to change to suit current market conditions, thus increasing the probability that the company will make larger numbers and greater severities of poor decisions. - Fixation in law refers to works entitled to copyrightCopyrightCopyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time...
protection (e.g. music, literature, paintings, etc.). Only works fixed in a medium can be copyrighted, not the ideas behind those works.
In online marketing
- Fixation online eye trackingEye trackingEye tracking is the process of measuring either the point of gaze or the motion of an eye relative to the head. An eye tracker is a device for measuring eye positions and eye movement. Eye trackers are used in research on the visual system, in psychology, in cognitive linguistics and in product...
refers to the test subject fixing on a particular portion of the page. It is used to determine which areas of a web page receive the most views. This is used to adjust where content resides on a web page to maximize its exposure.