What is "crystallising"

Usage examples of "crystallising".

Under the direction of the Queen of Plenty, the males swarmed tirelessly over the high circling construction, crystallising the fabric, it seemed, directly out of the sparse particles of sub-lunar space.

Her lips did not move, nor her eyes, but under the skin of her broad, sallow face a lattice of faint geometrical shapes came and went, as if she were crystallising from within.

Those who knew him best had learned that that peculiarly lazy and aimless smile was the index of a crystallising determination which was harder to resist than most men's square-jawed aggression.

She had said all that about having plans on the spur of the moment, but the idea, once in her head, stuck firmly, crystallising the vague plans she had had to do something useful.

The inherent effervescence of conglomerate youth had, during the two months of the term before Black Week, been gradually crystallising out into vivid oppositions.