Fixation

Fixation may refer to:

Science

• Fixation (psychology), the state in which an individual becomes obsessed with an attachment to another human, an animal, or an inanimate object
• Fixation (visual) maintaining the gaze in a constant direction
• Fixation (alchemy), a process in the alchemical magnum opus
• 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 (population genetics), the state when every individual in a population has the same allele at a particular locus
• Fixation (histology) in biochemistry, histology, cell biology and pathology, the technique of preserving a specimen for microscopic study
• Fixation agent, a process chemical

Business and law

• Fixation, in business, 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, a work entitled to copyright protection (e.g. music, literature, painting, etc.); only works fixed in a medium can be copyrighted, not the ideas behind those works

Other

• Fixation, in online eye tracking marketing, the test subject fixes on a particular portion of a webpage; used to determine which areas of a web page receive the most views and used to adjust where content resides on a web page to maximize its exposure
• Fixation, a puzzle video game by 2DArray hosted on the website Kongregate

See also

• Fix (disambiguation)