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To close. The term often refers to closing a track-at-once session on a CD-R disc. See disc fixation.
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It's also important that crews keep a proper scan going at all times so they don't fixate or lose situational awareness in the cockpit.
Grampaw pettibone by Naval Aviation News
As with 19th century engineering, sins of omission occur in health care not because people are evil or selfish but because practitioners--especially, I would add, physical therapists--tend to fixate on the patient before them and the next scheduled patient rather than acting on a more global responsibility to all patients and all physical therapists.
What we don't know can hurt us. (Editor's Note) by Rothstein, Jules M / Physical Therapy
The Kalahari, the Gobi, and the Empty Quarter all have their fans, but when it comes to the "real" desert nearly everyone fixates on the immense Sahara.
Tayler, Jeffrey. Glory in a camel's eye; a perilous trek through the ... by Puffer, Raymond / Kliatt
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