crystallization

Meanings

Plural: crystallizations

Noun

• the formation of crystals
• a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces
• a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation
• The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
• The body formed by crystallizing.
• The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
• The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.

Synonyms

crystal, crystallisation, crystallizing