crystallisation

Noun

crystallization (countable and uncountable, plural crystallizations)

1. The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized.
2. The body formed by crystallizing.
   • Silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations.
3. The formation of a solid from a solution, melt, vapour or from a different solid phase
4. The process or the result of becoming more definite or precise.
   • Bernstein's theories could never have had such an earth-shaking effect if they had not been a crystallization of ideas which were already in the air.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...