crystallization

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The body formed by crystallizing.

   Silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.

2. 2
   noun

   a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation

3. 3
   noun

   a rock formed by the solidification of a substance

4. 4
   noun

   the formation of crystals

5. 5
   noun

   The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.

6. 6
   noun

   The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase

7. 7
   noun

   The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.

Etymology

From crystal + -ization.