crystallization

crystallize | American Dictionary

crystallize
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˈkrɪs·təlˌɑɪz/
(of a substance) to turn into a crystal or crystals

crystallization

noun[ U ]us/ˌkrɪs·təl·əˈzeɪ·ʃən, -ˌɑɪˈzeɪ·ʃən/

crystallize | Business English

crystallize
verb[ T ]
(UK usuallycrystallise)uk /ˈkrɪstəlaɪz/us
FINANCE
to sell an investment at a particular time and make a profit or loss from that investment:
By selling the shares now, your gain will be crystallized.

Examples of crystallize

crystallize
The recurrence of particular constellations, expressions, and arguments is taken to indicate that certain cultural models have crystallized.
By the 1830s new, liberal, expansive ideas were definitely crystallizing, informing a blueprint for reshaping much of the world.
548 batholith crystallized at different depths and have been juxtaposed at the present level of erosion.
Field relations within the ultramafic series indicate that it crystallized from at least three distinct injections of magma.
The effect of using a single average chemical diffusivity and linear diffusion within the crystallizing zone is assumed to be negligible.
A possible explanation for this, and for strain variations at outcrop scale, may be that deformation acted on a crystallizing granite with spatial viscosity heterogeneities.
All the samples are extremely fresh and well crystallized, and they do not contain any obvious xenolithic or xenocrystic material.
My own have crystallized somewhat during recent years.
The solution crystallizes into a convention, and conventions of this kind constitute the notion of fairness held by a society.
Anorthosites are also thought to have crystallized from dry melts, because of their anhydrous mafic mineralogy.
In this case it is possible that the quartzofeldspathic streaks may have crystallized from melts, which were generated during the peak of metamorphism.
Finally, the author's elaborate writing is continually crystallized in summative statements that facilitate reading.
Five dissimilar cases plus some bodily traits quickly crystallized into a stereotype.
In the spring, the hardhats' dramatic support crystallized the new focus.
Diffusion of dissolved gas from the crystallizing zone is slow and, as a result, the local melt becomes supersaturated and gas bubbles desorb.
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