Crystallization

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The process by which the molecules of a substance which is in the state of a liquid (or vapor) unite in regular (crystalline) form when it solidifies by cooling or evaporation.
  • noun. The mass or body formed by the process of crystallizing.
  • noun. Also spelled crystallisation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized; the formation of crystals.
  • noun. The body formed by crystallizing.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
  • noun. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
  • noun. The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
  • noun. The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces
  • noun. a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation
  • noun. the formation of crystals
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    "Stendhal has written of what he calls the crystallization of a loving relationship."
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