fixation
/fɪkˈseɪʃən/
noun
- An intense or obsessive interest in something or someone.
- She has a fixation with cleanliness and washes her hands constantly.
- The child's fixation with dinosaurs led him to learn all their names.
- His fixation on video games made it hard for him to focus on homework.
- The act of making something stable or unchanging, especially in a scientific or technical context.
- The fixation of carbon dioxide occurs during photosynthesis.
- The fixation of nitrogen in the soil is important for plant growth.
- In photography, fixation removes unexposed silver halide from the film.
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