Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of making solid; specifically, in physics, the passage of a body from a liquid or gaseous to a solid state. It is accompanied by evolution of heat without a decrease of temperature, and by change of volume.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Act of solidifying, or state of being solidified.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The action of
solidifying . - noun
Concentration orconsolidation .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
Etymologies
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Examples
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Because granite and granodiorite form beneath the Earth's surface, their solidification is a relatively slow process.
Igneous rock 2007
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The cause of broad-leafed trees losing their leaves is then identified as the solidification of moisture at the leaf juncture, which can thus serve as the middle term in a causal explanation of this fact.
Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006
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He told the senator that the interim storage of waste at reactors through a process known as solidification "is something we can do today."
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Because granite and granodiorite form beneath the Earth's surface, their solidification is a relatively slow process.
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Because granite and granodiorite form beneath the Earth's surface, their solidification is a relatively slow process.
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Because granite and granodiorite form beneath the Earth's surface, their solidification is a relatively slow process.
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He refers over and over again to the idea of "solidification" of commercial spent nuclear fuel at each reactor location as the solution to the waste management issue.
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a world of beauty she was now too fatigued to imagine save as a kind of solidification of a sunset.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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It's more than a miracle; it's the solidification of the Jewish people.
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Rather than advance Palestinian independence, this vitriol contributes to the solidification of the Israeli occupation in the name of security.
Alon Ben-Meir: Palestinian Incitement Against Israel Alon Ben-Meir 2011
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