plural of agatization

plural of agate

(countable, uncountable, mineralogy) A semitransparent, uncrystallized silicate mineral and semiprecious stone, presenting various tints in the same specimen, with colors delicately arranged and often curved in parallel alternating dark and light stripes or bands, or blended in clouds; various authorities call it a variety of chalcedony, a variety of quartz, or a combination of the two.

(obsolete) On the way; agoing.

(transitive) To convert a living thing into the form of an agate; to fossilize.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of agatize

present participle of agatize

simple past tense and past participle of agatize

formation of agate

A unit of advertising space that is one column wide and one agate (one fourteenth of an inch) deep.