FIXATION

'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.