Noun crystallization has 3 senses
  1. crystallization, crystallisation, crystallizing - the formation of crystals
    --1 is a kind of chemical phenomenon
    --1 has particulars: efflorescence, bloom
    Derived forms: verb crystallize3, verb crystallize4
  2. crystal, crystallization - a rock formed by the solidification of a substance; has regularly repeating internal structure; external plane faces
    --2 is a kind of rock, stone
    --2 has particulars: crystallite
    Derived forms: verb crystallize3, verb crystallize4
  3. crystallization - a mental synthesis that becomes fixed or concrete by a process resembling crystal formation
    --3 is a kind of
    construction, mental synthesis
    Derived form: verb crystallize1
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