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Word entry · 8 letters

fixation

Best crossword clue

"Obsessive focus"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /fɪksˈeɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted afiinotxStarts with FEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body

Word origin

From Old French fixation. By surface analysis, fix + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • Near-synonym: gelling
  • Increasingly it is being realised that a modern conurbation's transport problems cannot be solved if there is a fixation on profit and loss in public transport—[...].
  • Near-synonym: obsession

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