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sublimation noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or medieval Latin sublimatio(n-), formed as SUBLIMATE verb: see -ATION.]
The action or process of subliming or converting a solid substance by heating directly into a vapour which resolidifies on cooling; the state of being so vaporized. Also, the action or process of changing physical state from the solid to the gaseous phase, or vice versa, without passing through the liquid phase. LME.
Scientific American Atmospheric ice crystals form by direct sublimation from the air that is supersaturated with water.
b. A solid deposited by sublimation; a sublimate. M17.
c. Geology. A process by which minerals vaporized deep in the earth are deposited nearer the surface. E19.
= SUBLATION 1. M16-E17.
The action or an act of elevating something or making something sublime; (a) transmutation into something higher or purer; (a) refinement. E17.
T. Harper This supernatural sublimation of man's nature.
b. An elated or ecstatic state of mind. E19.
c. Psychoanalysis. The transformation of an instinctual drive, esp. the sexual impulse, so that it manifests in a socially acceptable way. E20.
The purest or most concentrated form of some quality, attribute, etc.; the height or extremity of something. L17.
T. Hardy That..sublimation of all dismal sounds, the bark of a fox.
b. Psychoanalysis. The result of the refinement or transmutation of sexual or instinctual energy. E20.
sublimational adjective of or pertaining to sublimation M20.