Transference
['trænsf(ə)r(ə)ns;'trɑːns-;-nz-] or [træns'fɝəns]
Definition
(noun.) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst.
Checked by Benita--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.
Checker: Muriel
Examples
- The Gulf Stream illustrates the transference of heat by convection. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The extreme minuteness and delicacy of the electrotype process is strikingly exemplified in its application to the transference of engraved copper-plates. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The casualties of the feudal law were taxes upon the transference of land, both from the dead to the living, and from the living to the living. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A still more extraordinary foreshadowing of one of the most recent improvements of the Electric Telegraph was the transference of written letters from one place to another by electric agency. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Heat is developed as a result of this transference, and the heat thus developed is sometimes so great that fire occurs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- In like manner Edison developed a pressure or carbon relay, adapted to the transference of signals of variable strength from one circuit to another. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Editor: Tod