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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

定着液

Pronunciation / Transliteration: teichaku-eki

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fixative/ˈfɪk.sə.tɪv/
nounadjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #45200 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"木炭画を保護するために定着液を吹きかけます。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A substance used to treat or prepare something, such as histological specimens, artwork, or photography, to maintain or preserve its structure or appearance.

    "The artist sprayed a fixative over the charcoal drawing to prevent it from smudging."
  2. 2

    A substance added to perfume to retard vaporization and improve longevity.

    "Ambergris has historically been prized as a natural fixative in high-end perfumery."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Medieval Latin 'fixativus', stemming from the classical Latin 'fixus' (fixed, fastened), past participle of 'figere' (to fix). It entered English in the mid-19th century initially in chemical and photographic contexts to denote an agent used to preserve or make something permanent.

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