SUBLIMATION
\sˌʌblɪmˈe͡ɪʃən], \sˌʌblɪmˈeɪʃən], \s_ˌʌ_b_l_ɪ_m_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of SUBLIMATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
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The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.
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That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process.
By Oddity Software
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A defense mechanism through which unacceptable impulses and instinctive urges are diverted into personally and socially acceptable channels; e.g., aggression may be diverted through sports activities.
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By William R. Warner
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The act of sublimating or purifying by raising into vapor by heat and condensing by cold: elevation: exaltation.
By Daniel Lyons
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An operation by which dry and solid matters are volatilized and condensed at the upper part of a subliming apparatus. Calomel, sal ammoniac, are commonly obtained hy sublimation. The product of suhlimation is a Sublimate, Sublimatum, (F.) Sublime.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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The vaporization of a solid body by means of heat, with subsequent recondensation in a purified but essentially unaltered form.
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In psycho-analysis the utilization of libido at socially valuable levels. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. Act of sublimating or state of being sublimated ;-act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation.
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