Usually means: Substance used to preserve samples.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word fixative:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixative: Merriam-Webster
  2. fixative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fixative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fixative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fixative: Vocabulary.com
  6. fixative: Wordnik
  7. fixative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fixative: Wiktionary
  9. fixative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fixative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fixative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fixative: Dictionary.com
  13. Fixative (drawing), Fixative (perfumery), Fixative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Fixative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fixative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fixative: Rhymezone
  17. Fixative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fixative: FreeDictionary.org
  19. fixative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. fixative: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. fixative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixative: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Fixative: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. FIXATIVE: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fixative (art), fixative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. fixative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fixative: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Fixative (art), fixative: Medical dictionary
  6. Fixative: Drug Medical Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary for the Modern Soap Maker (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A substance that fixes, protects, or preserves.
noun:  (perfumery) The components of a perfume that prolong or bolster the notes, and may or may not be the base note itself.
adjective:  Serving to fix or bind.

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