fixation

n. act of fixating; stabilizing; focusing on; fixing in place; arrest of emotional development; obsession

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 objectFixation (visual) maintaining the gaze in a constant directionFixation (alchemy), one of the 12 vital alchemical processes required for transformationCarbon fixation, a biochemical process, usually driven by photosynthesis, whereby carbon dioxide is converted into organic compoundsNitrogen fixation, a process by which nitrogen is converted from its inert molecular form to a compound more readily available and useful to living organismsFixation (population genetics), the state when every individual in a population has the same allele at a particular locusFixation (histology) in biochemistry, histology, cell biology and pathology, the technique of preserving a specimen for microscopic study
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n. fixing, attachment, binding; determination, fixture

The process of setting a price of a commodity whether it be in the present or the future. See: Gold fixing.