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.