Similar words: nitrogen fixation, taxation, vexation, subluxation, annexation, relaxation, international relations, rationalization. Meaning: [fɪk'seɪʃn] 
n. 1. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely 2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone 3. the activity of fastening something firmly in position 4. (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body.
n. 1. an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely 2. an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone 3. the activity of fastening something firmly in position 4. (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body. 
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1. He has a fixation about her.
2. Such a fixation with money can't be healthy.
3. He's got this fixation with cleanliness.
4. Carlo has an absolute fixation with the royal family.
5. The country's fixation on the war may delay a serious examination of domestic needs.
6. What are the prospects for nitrogen fixation in plants?
7. Despite his later fixation with relationships, Gedge's first song on record did not deal with the subject.
8. The fixation with aprons spilled over into her business life too as she insisted that her shops should always stock aprons.
9. In doing so he is confusing carbon fixation with the fate of phytoplankton.
10. Fixation at this stage may result if toilet training is too harsh and demanding or is begun too early or too late.
11. Prolonged fixation often lead to irreversible damage as muscles atrophied.
12. Consequently, this fixation on the earliest, nurturing and nutritive superego-precursor seems increasingly to express itself in the form of drug-addiction.
13. Skill learning falls into three phases: cognitive, fixation and autonomous.
14. Little Red Cap, who has outgrown her oral fixation, no longer has any destructive oral desires.
15. She wondered if her fixation with Ace was because in her mind the two of them were inextricably linked.
16. Staining was optimal after 18-24 hours of fixation,(sentence dictionary) but less intense after more than 48 hours of fixation.
17. Most of these have an almost Freudian fixation on food and cleanliness.
18. Without this dynamic process, tradition stagnates into a fixation of habit, traditionalism, bringing about its death or rejection.
19. Your body has expressed its need through this fixation on the nearest man.
20. Nodule bacteria are very good at biological nitrogen fixation.
21. Mycorhizae perform the function of nitrogen fixation and storage.
22. Again Cagney was at his twisted best in White Heat, playing a psychopath with a mother fixation.
23. But, ah, what might have been, if we did not have this political fixation on reducing or eliminating deficits.
24. Many teachers will be puzzled at these remarks, having had two decades where measurement has been a fixation of successive administrations.
25. The vertigo is less severe than that due to end-organ disease, and visual fixation inhibits neither the nystagmus nor the vertigo.
26. Getting stuck in the phallic phase is little progress over fixation on the oral phase.
27. All the antibodies used in this study recognise epitopes that are resistant to formalin fixation and wax embedding.
28. The freedom in the growing up of the child allows a fixation to the pregenital phase and facilitates regression to it.
29. A third way to think about normality is in terms of a delay or fixation model.
30. Type, power and parameters of the lamp are selected according to the type and area of plaster bandage fixation and patient's tolerance.
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