Fixation

FIXA'TION, 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.

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