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Definition of Transference

1. 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.

2. Noun. Transferring ownership.

3. Noun. The act of transfering something from one form to another. "The transfer of the music from record to tape suppressed much of the background noise"

Definition of Transference

1. n. The act of transferring; conveyance; passage; transfer.

Definition of Transference

1. Noun. The act of conveying from one place to another; the act of transferring or the fact of being transferred. ¹

2. Noun. (psychology) The process by which emotions and desires, originally associated with one person, such as a parent, are unconsciously shifted to another. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transference

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Transference

1. The unconscious transfer to others (including psychotherapists) of feelings and attitudes which were originally associated with important figures (parents, siblings, etc.) in one's early life. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transference

transfer tax transfer taxes transfer window transferability transferable transferable skill transferable skills transferal transferals transferase

transferase deficiency galactosaemia transferases transferases (other substituted phosphate groups) transferee transferees transference (current term) transference love transference neurosis transferences transferential

transferer transfermium transferography transferor transferors transferrable transferral transferrals transferred transferred ophthalmia

Literary usage of Transference

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Advanced Course of Instruction in Chemical Principles by Arthur Amos Noyes, Miles Standish Sherrill (1922)
"The Resultant Effects of transference and Electrolysis. — a. ... Tabulate also the gain and loss caused by the transference per faraday in the number of ..."

2. An Introduction to the Principles of Physical Chemistry from the Standpoint by Edward Wight Washburn (1921)
"The J\ to Jtl.2vJ relative ionic hydrations and true transference numbers obtained in ... Change of transference Numbers with Concentration and Temperature. ..."

3. Preventive medicine and hygiene by Milton Joseph Rosenau (1917)
"Modes of transference.—The viruses of the communicable diseases may take various routes of transference from man to man or from ..."

4. An Introduction to the Principles of Physical Chemistry from the Standpoint by Edward Wight Washburn (1921)
"10 I III II It Mill l.ll 1<I, | (• , , relative ionic hydrations and true transference numbers obtained in this way in the case of the uni-univalent ..."

5. The Properties of Electrically Conducting Systems: Including Electrolytes by Charles August Kraus (1922)
"Change of the transference Numbers at Low Concentrations. The transference numbers of an electrolyte are determined by the relative speed of its ions. ..."

6. Experiments in Educational Psychology by Daniel Starch (1911)
"The usual method of determining by experiment the transference of training is to ... The 1 The problems involved in the transference of training are usually ..."

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