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    sublimation
    (sub″lĭ-ma´shәn) the conversion of a solid directly into the gaseous state. a type of defense mechanism in which an individual diverts socially unacceptable instinctive drives into personally approved and socially acceptable channels. Mental conflicts may be resolved by this means ...
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    Sublimation
    • (n.) The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification. • (n.) That which is sublimed; the product of a purifying process. • (n.) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
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    sublimation
    (from the article `defense mechanism`) 5. Sublimation is the diversion or deflection of instinctual drives, usually sexual ones, into noninstinctual channels. Psychoanalytic theory holds ... The fundamental premise that permitted Freud to examine cultural phenomena was called sublimation in the Thre...
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/178
    
    
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    sublimation
    in physics, conversion of a substance from the solid to the vapour state without its becoming liquid. An example is the vaporization of frozen ... [6 related articles]
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    Sublimation
    [psychology] In psychology, sublimation is a mature type of defence mechanism where socially unacceptable impulses or idealizations are consciously transformed into socially acceptable actions or behaviour, possibly converting the initial impulse in the long term. According to Wade and Tavri...
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    Sublimation
    [phase transition] Sublimation is the process of transition of a substance from the solid phase to the gas phase without passing through an intermediate liquid phase. Sublimation is an endothermic phase transition that occurs at temperatures and pressures below a substance`s triple point in ...
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    Sublimation
    Process where ice changes into water vapor without first becoming liquid. This process requires approximately 680 calories of heat energy for each gram of water converted.
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    SUBLIMATION
    The process of a solid (ice) changing directly into a gas (water vapor), or water vapor changing directly into ice, at the same temperature, without ever going through the liquid state (water). The opposite of crystallization.
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    Sublimation
    The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapour phase without being in the liquid phase. The opposite of sublimation is deposition.
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    Sublimation
    The transition of a substance from the solid phase directly to the vapor phase, or vice versa, without passing through an intermediate liquid phase.
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    sublimation
    sublimation (sŭblimā'shun) , change of a solid substance directly to a vapor without first passing through the liquid state. The term is also used to describe the reverse process of the gas changing directly to the solid again upon cooling. An example of sublimation is seen when iodi...
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    sublimation
    sublimation, in psychology: see defense mechanism; psychoanalysis.
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    Sublimation
    (Lat. sublimatio, from sublimare, to elevete, lift up) The psychological mechanism, described by Freudians, which consists in the discovery of a substitute object for the expression of a basic instinct or feeling, e.g., the sublimation of the sex impulses in aesthetic creation -- L.W.
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