Fixation

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Fixation may refer to the following:

In 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), one of the 12 vital alchemical processes required for transformation
• 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

In business and law:

• Fixation in business 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 copyright protection (e.g. music, literature, paintings, etc.). Only works fixed in a medium can be copyrighted, not the ideas behind those works.

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