procrystalline

English

Etymology

From pro- +‎ crystalline.

Adjective

procrystalline (not comparable)

1. That will convert to a crystalline form
   • 2015, Alistair R. Overy, Andrew B. Cairns, Matthew J. Cliffe, Matthew G. Tucker, Andrew L. Goodwin, “Design of crystal-like aperiodic solids with selective disorder--phonon coupling”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     This property of procrystalline solids suggests a mechanism by which strongly-correlated topological disorder might allow new and useful functionalities, including independently-optimised thermal and electronic transport behaviour as required for high-performance thermoelectrics..