ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Sublation

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Sublation is a noun meaning Removal, taking away.

Meaning

Removal, taking away.

More Meanings

  1. (chemistry) A flotation method in which the material to be separated is adsorbed on the surface of gas bubbles in a liquid and is collected on an upper layer of an immiscible liquid
  2. (philosophy) In Hegelian philosophy, the situation where a tension between contradictory opposites is resolved by the addition of a new term which pushes the old opposition into its relation.

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Related dictionary entries include flotation, sublimate, desublimation, subphase, subliming, sublimation.

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