Associations to the word «Crystallization»

Wiktionary

CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. (uncountable) The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. (countable) The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. (uncountable) (physics) (chemistry) The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. (countable) The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.

Dictionary definition

CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. The formation of crystals.
CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. A rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces.
CRYSTALLIZATION, noun. A mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats