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Definition of Fixating
1. fixate [v] - See also: fixate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixating
Literary usage of Fixating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1900)
"whose fixating eye was injured (traumatic cataract), reducing vision to counting of
... Even so, this eye was at first still preferred as the fixating eye. ..."
2. Introduction to Experimental Education by Robert Robertson Rusk (1912)
"These two types, the fluctuating and the fixating, are distinguished by the following
... A reader of the fixating type reads at the first exposure a small ..."
3. The Psychology and Pedagogy of Reading: With a Review of the History of by Edmund Burke Huey (1908)
"If he will then read down the column again, fixating toward the end of the words,
say three or four letters from the end, and again fixating near the ..."
4. Psychology by Burtis Burr Breese (1917)
"If, after fixating a yellow cross on a blue background for half a minute, one
looks at a neutral gray surface, the cross will appear in a bluish tone upon a ..."
5. Attention and Interest: A Study in Psychology and Education by Felix Arnold (1910)
"It is shown by such photographs that the eye, in fixating a point, does not remain
rigid, but fixates around the point, covering a small area. ..."
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