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sublations

sublations is the plural of sublation.

Meaning of sublation

Noun

sublation (countable and uncountable, plural sublations)

  1. 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. Removal, taking away.
  3. 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.
    Synonyms:
    Aufhebung

Questions about sublations

What is sublations the plural of?
Sublations is the plural of sublation.

Words near sublations in the dictionary

  1. sublaterals
  2. sublaterodorsal
  3. sublates
  4. sublating
  5. sublation
  6. sublations
  7. sublative
  8. sublative case
  9. sublative cases
  10. sublattice
  11. sublattices

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sublations (page history and authors); sublation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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