different between vitrify vs vitrification

English

Etymology

From Middle French vitrifier, from Latin vitrum (“glass”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?.t??.fa?/

Verb

vitrify (third-person singular simple present vitrifies, present participle vitrifying, simple past and past participle vitrified)

1. (transitive) To convert into, or cause to resemble, glass or a glassy substance, by heat and fusion.
2. (intransitive) To be converted into glass, especially through heat.

Synonyms

• (convert into glassy substance): glassify

Related terms

• vitrification, vitrifaction, vitrifacture, vitreous

Translations

English

Etymology

From Late Latin *vitrific?tio (“glassification”), from *vitrific?re (“to glassify”), from vitrum (“glass”) + -ific?re (“-ify”). Cf. French vitrification, Spanish vitrificación, Italian vitrificazion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?v?.t??.f??ke?.??n/
• Rhymes: -?t??f?ke???n, -e???n

Noun

vitrification (countable and uncountable, plural vitrifications)

1. (usually uncountable) The action or process of vitrifying a material: conversion into a glass-like amorphous solid free of any crystalline structure by addition or removal of heat or by mixture with an additive.
2. (countable) An instance of such conversion.
3. (countable) The result of such conversion: a vitrified substance or object.

Alternative forms

• vitrifaction

Related terms

• vitrify, vitrifacture, vitreous

Translations

References

• “vitrification, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1920