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Meaning of sublation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  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
    countable, uncountable
  2. Removal, taking away.
    countable, uncountable
  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.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

日本語 アウフヘーベン
Latina sublatio

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

sublative sublative case sublattice sublaw Sublayer sublayering

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