solidification

1. 1.

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

   “the hardening of concrete”

   “he tested the set of the glue”

   Synonymshardeningsolidifyingsetcuring

   Broadernatural process

   Narrowercongealment

   Part ofplastination

Other forms of solidification

plural

solidifications·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about solidification

What does solidification mean?

solidification means "the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization".

How many syllables are in solidification?

solidification has 7 syllables: so-li-di-fi-ca-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for solidification?

Close synonyms include hardening, solidifying, set, curing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is solidification a common word?

solidification is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.