SOLIDIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does solidification mean? 

• SOLIDIFICATION (noun)
  The noun SOLIDIFICATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

  Familiarity information: SOLIDIFICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOLIDIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

curing; hardening; set; solidification; solidifying

Context example:

he tested the set of the glue

Hypernyms ("solidification" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "solidification"):

congealment; congelation (the process of congealing; solidification by (or as if by) freezing)

Holonyms ("solidification" is a part of...):

plastination (a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened)

Derivation:

solidify (become solid)

solidify (make solid or more solid; cause to solidify)

 Context examples 

A solid formed by the solidification of a chemical and having a highly regular atomic structure.

(Crystal, NCI Thesaurus)

Formation of particles by solidification of dispersed droplets within a cooler gas.

(Cooling/Congealing Particle Sizing, NCI Thesaurus)

Then he pictured the solidification, the cooling, the wrinkling which formed the mountains, the steam which turned to water, the slow preparation of the stage upon which was to be played the inexplicable drama of life.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)