fixation
B1CEFR level
35/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
Medicine noun
The act of directing and holding the gaze steadily on a particular target.
Ask the child to keep fixation on the light while you watch the eye movements.
Law noun
The recording of a work in a tangible or permanent form, often a precondition of copyright.
An improvised speech attracts protection only upon fixation, such as a recording.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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