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), a process in the alchemical magnum opus
- 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
- Fixation agent is a process chemical
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 a work entitled to copyright protection (e.g. music, literature, painting, etc.). Only works fixed in a medium can be copyrighted, not the ideas behind those works.
In online marketing
- Fixation online eye tracking refers to the test subject fixing on a particular portion of the page. It is used to determine which areas of a web page receive the most views. This is used to adjust where content resides on a web page to maximize its exposure.
Fixation may also refer to the game by 2DArray, which is puzzle in genre and is hosted on Kongregate, Armour games and other websites.