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

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