'Sublimation' can have several meanings:
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Sublimation (chemistry), the change from solid to gas, while at no point becoming a liquid.
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Sublimation (psychology), the transformation of emotions.
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Dye sublimation, the transference of printed images to a synthetic substrate by the application of heat.
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Sublation, the purification or exaltation of a thing by its negation or redirection.