sublimation

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Using dye-sublimation, the tees can be highly decorative and imaginative; talk about wearing art to its fullest extreme.

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  1. noun The act or process of sublimating.
  2. noun Something that has been sublimated.

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  • Most psychologists would've interpreted the phenomenon in terms of defense mechanisms or compensation--sublimation at best. —  Omni: January 1995
  • The process of sublimation, the mechanism by which vapor is released directly from solid ice in the crust, cannot account for the presence of salt. —  The Money Times - finance news, lifestyle, markets, investment, personal finance, banking, retirement planning
  • A question we'd like to be able to answer well is whether the balance between accumulation of snow and ice and ablation (melting, sublimation, and loss of ice to the ocean via iceberg calving) is positive or negative. —  RealClimate
  • After sublimation, the now colored pieces of fabric are gathered, bundled, and transferred for sewing and assembly of each jersey, jacket, shorts, etc. —  PezCyclingNews.com
  • Using dye-sublimation, the tees can be highly decorative and imaginative; talk about wearing art to its fullest extreme. —  Cool Hunting
 

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  1. from Middle English sublymacioun, from Old French (and F.) sublimation = Spanish sublimacion = Portuguese sublimação = Italian sublimazione, from Late Latin sublimatio(n-), a lifting up, a deliverance, from Latin sublimare, lift up: see sublimate, sublime, v.
 

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/səblɪˈmæʃən/
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