Look up: sublimation


  1. Sublimation
    The direct vaporization of a sold by heating without passing through the liquid state.
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  2. Sublimation
    The direct change of a material from a solid state to a gas state without turning to liquid in between. Can also occur in reverse, as crystallization from a vapor.
    Found op http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/glossary.htm

  3. Sublimation
    The transition of a substance directly from the solid to the vapour phase or vice versa.
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  4. sublimation
    [n] - (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid 2. [n] - (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable
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  5. Sublimation
    Process whereby a solid turns directly into a vapour on heating without passing through a liquid phase.
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  6. Sublimation
    The process whereby a solid becomes a gas under a change in temperature or pressure without going through a liquid phase.
    Found op http://www.bocindustrial.co.uk/bocindustrial/technical/glossary/s.html

  7. Sublimation
    The transition of a substance directly from the solid phase to the vapour phase, or in reverse, without going through the liquid phase. See also: Phase Change.
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  8. Sublimation
    The direct vaporization of a sold by heating without passing through the liquid state.
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  9. sublimation
    sublimate; sublimating. Conversion of a solid directly into a gas, without first melting into a liquid.
    Found op http://antoine.frostburg.edu/chem/senese/101/glossary/s.shtml

  10. Sublimation
    The direct conversion of a solid to a gas.
    Found op http://www.chemicalglossary.net/definition/1513-Sublimation

  11. Sublimation
    Sub'li·ma`tion noun [ Late Latin sublimatio : confer French sublimation .] 1. (Chemistry) The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed. 2. The act of heightening or improving; exaltation...
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  12. sublimation
    <chemistry> The process by which a substance goes directly from the solid to the gaseous state without passing through the liquid state. ... (09 Jan 1998) ...
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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

  4. 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]
    Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/s/178

  5. 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...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(psychology)

  6. 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 ...
    Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublimation_(phase_transition)

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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.
    Found op http://nsidc.org/arcticmet/glossary/sublimation.html

  11. 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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  12. sublimation
    sublimation, in psychology: see defense mechanism; psychoanalysis.
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  13. 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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