fixation

noun12

1. •
   The act of fixing.
2. •
   A state of mind involving obsession with a particular person, idea, or thing.

   • Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's transport problems cannot be solved if there is a fixation on profit and loss in public transport—[...]. — 1962
3. •
   A sexual fetish or turn-on.
4. •
   The state of being fixed or fixated.
5. •
   process by which an injury is rendered immobile.
6. •
   The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of volatile elements.
7. •
   The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm.
8. •
   In metals, a state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat.
9. •
   Maintaining of the gaze on a single location (either momentarily or prolongedly).
10. •
    preservation of biological tissues from decay due to autolysis or putrefaction.
11. •
    The change in a gene pool from a situation where there exists at least two variants of a particular gene (allele) to a situation where only one of the alleles remains.
12. •
    Recording a creative work in a medium of expression for more than a transitory duration, thereby satisfying the "fixation" requirement for the purposes of copyright law.

    • In order to obtain copyright on a recording in the United States, the recording must have been reduced to fixation on or after February 15, 1972.