crystallization

English

Alternative forms

• crystallisation (UK)
• crystalization (US)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English crystal

Proto-Indo-European *-id-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti

Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō

Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor.

Late Latin -izōder.

Middle French -iserbor.

Middle English -isen

English -ize

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English -ization

English crystallization

From crystal + -ization.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɹɪstəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ (in isolation)

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 100, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish):

     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.

Derived terms

• anticrystallization
• biocrystallization
• cocrystallization
• cryptocrystallization
• decrystallization
• fractional crystallization
• nanocrystallization
• post-crystallization
• precrystallization
• recrystallization
• water of crystallization

Translations

the act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and structure of a crystal

• Bulgarian: кристализация (kristalizacija)
• Catalan: cristal·lització (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 結晶作用 / 结晶作用 (jiéjīng zuòyòng)

• Czech: krystalizace f
• Dutch: kristallisatie (nl) f
• Finnish: kiteytyminen
• French: cristallisation (fr) f
• German: Kristallisation (de) f
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi)
• Irish: criostalú m
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Kazakh: кристалдану (kriystaldanuw)
• Malay: penghabluran, pengkristalan, kristalisasi
• Portuguese: cristalização (pt) f
• Romanian: cristalizare (ro) f, cristalizație (ro) f
• Russian: кристаллиза́ция (ru) f (kristallizácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализа́ција f

  Latin: kristalizácija (sh) f

• Spanish: cristalización f
• Swedish: kristallisation (sv) c, kristallisering (sv) c
• Tagalog: sabubog

the body formed by crystallizing

• Finnish: kiteymä
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi)
• Irish: criostalúchán m
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Malay: habluran
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализа́ција f

  Latin: kristalizácija (sh) f

formation of a solid from a solution

• Finnish: kiteytyminen
• Greek: κρυστάλλωση (el) f (krystállosi)
• Irish: criostalú m
• Italian: cristallizzazione (it) f
• Malay: penghabluran, pengkristalan, kristalisasi
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: кристализа́ција f

  Latin: kristalizácija (sh) f

• Tagalog: sabubog

process or the result of becoming more definite or precise

• Finnish: kiteyttäminen (fi) (process), kiteytys (fi) (result)

Further reading

• crystallization on Wikipedia.Wikipedia