Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Solidification by cooling or freezing.
  • noun The process of forming a gel.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The assumption of the solid state by cooling below common atmospheric temperature; freezing.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Astron.) The process of becoming solid by cooling; a cooling and solidifying.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The formation of a solid by cooling; freezing
  • noun The formation of a gel, especially from a sol

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin gelātiō, gelātiōn-, from gelātus, past participle of gelāre, to freeze; see gel- in Indo-European roots.]

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