English-Thai Dictionary

fixation

N ขบวนการ ที่ ก๊าซ เปลี่ยนไป เป็น ของแข็ง  ka-buan-kan-ti-kad-pian-pai-pen-kong-kaeng

 

fixation

N ความหลง ใหล  ความลุ่มหลง  ความสนใจ ที่ มี มาก เกิน ปกติ  obsession preoccupation kwam-long-lai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FIXATION

n. 1. The act of fixing.
2. Stability; firmness; steadiness; a state of being established; as fixation in matters of religion.
3. Residence in a certain place; or a place of residence. [Little used. ]
To light, created in the first day, God gave no certain place or fixation.
4. That firm state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as the fixation of gold or other metals.
5. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm; state of being fixed.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FIXATION

Fix *a "tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fixation. ]

 

1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a joint. Quain. A fixation and confinement of thought to a few objects. Watts.

 

2. The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous elements.

 

3. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm. Glanvill.

 

4. A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals. Bacon.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fixation

fix a tion |fikˈsāSHən fɪkˈseɪʃən | ▶noun 1 an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something: his fixation on the details of other people's erotic lives | our fixation with diet and fitness. • Psychoanalysis the arresting of part of the libido at an immature stage, causing an obsessive attachment: fixation at the oral phase might result in dependence on others | an oral-maternal fixation. 2 the action of making something firm or stable: sand dune fixation. • Biochemistry the process by which some plants and microorganisms incorporate gaseous nitrogen or carbon dioxide to form nongaseous compounds: his work on nitrogen fixation in plants. • Biology the process of preserving or stabilizing (a specimen ) with a chemical substance prior to microscopy or other examination: biopsy specimens were placed in cassettes before fixation in formalin. 3 technical the action of concentrating the eyes directly on something: during the period of total blindness there was a complete absence of visual fixation. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as an alchemical term denoting the process of reducing a volatile spirit or essence to a permanent bodily form ): from medieval Latin fixatio (n- ), from fixare (see fix ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

fixation

fix |ation |fɪkˈseɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] 1 an obsessive interest in or feeling about someone or something: our fixation with diet and fitness. • Psychoanalysis (in Freudian theory ) the arresting of part of the libido at an immature stage, causing an obsessive attachment: fixation at the oral phase might result in dependence on others. 2 the action or process of fixing or being fixed: sand-dune fixation. • the process by which some plants and microorganisms assimilate nitrogen or carbon dioxide. ORIGIN late Middle English (originally as an alchemical term denoting the process of reducing a volatile spirit or essence to a permanent bodily form ): from medieval Latin fixatio (n- ), from fixare (see fix ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fixation

fixation noun his sports fixation has gotten intolerable: obsession, preoccupation, mania, addiction, compulsion; informal thing, bug, craze, fad.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fixation

fixation noun the modern fixation on fitness: obsession with, preoccupation with, mania for; monomania, fetish, addiction, complex, neurosis, compulsion; French idée fixe; informal hang-up, thing, yen, rage, bug, craze, fad, bee in one's bonnet.

 

Duden Dictionary

Fixation

Fi xa ti on Substantiv, feminin , die |Fixati o n |französisch fixation, zu: fixe, Fixateur 1 veraltet Festigung 2 Psychologie emotionale Bindung an jemanden, an etwas

 

French Dictionary

fixation

fixation n. f. nom féminin 1 Action de fixer; attache servant à fixer. : Les fixations de mes skis sont neuves. 2 psychanalyse Attachement de la libido à un mode de satisfaction.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fixation

fix á tion 名詞 U C 1 【人 物への 】執着, 固執 «with , about , on » .2 〘心 〙固着 .3 固定 [定着 ](した状態 ).4 〘化 〙(ガス 液体の )固定, 凝固 .5 〘写 〙定着 .