Sublimation

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Sublimation can have several meanings:

  • Sublimation (chemistry), the change from solid to gas, while at no point becoming a liquid.
  • Sublimation (psychology), the transformation of emotions.
  • Dye sublimation, the transference of printed images to a synthetic substrate by the application of heat.
  • Sublation, the purification or exaltation of a thing by its negation or redirection.
  • in Iain M. Banks' science fiction novels, the process of a civilization becoming one of the Sublimed.