CRYSTALLIZED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crystallized mean? 

• CRYSTALLIZED (adjective)
  The adjective CRYSTALLIZED has 2 senses:

1. having become fixed and definite in form

2. having both internal structure and external form of a crystal

  Familiarity information: CRYSTALLIZED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYSTALLIZED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having become fixed and definite in form

Synonyms:

crystallised; crystallized

Context example:

distinguish between crystallized and uncrystallized opinion

Antonym:

uncrystallized (not finally or definitely formed)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Having both internal structure and external form of a crystal

Synonyms:

crystalised; crystallized

Context example:

quartz crystal is perfectly crystallized

Similar:

crystalline (consisting of or containing or of the nature of crystals)

 Context examples 

This technique requires a protein to first be crystallized into a fixed 3-D shape.

(Structural states of a brain receptor revealed, NIH)

They crystallized the receptors in the presence of various chemicals that turn the channel on or off.

(Structure of receptor involved in brain disorders, NIH)

They're also mixed with sediment, suggesting they crystallized in a wet environment - possibly just beneath evaporating shallow ponds filled with briny water.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars, NASA)

Had she been fourteen instead of twenty-four, she might have been changed by them; but she was twenty-four, conservative by nature and upbringing, and already crystallized into the cranny of life where she had been born and formed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)