sublation
The English word “sublation” has 3 meanings listed here.
noun
- 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
- Removal, taking away.
- 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.
Etymology
From Latin sublātiō (“removal”).
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