"colloform" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently from colloid.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more colloform",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most colloform",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "colloform (comparative more colloform, superlative most colloform)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mineralogy",
          "orig": "en:Mineralogy",
          "parents": [
            "Geology",
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, S. S. Augustithis, Atlas of the sphaeroidal textures and structures and their genetic significance",
          "text": "Often complex textural patterns of more than one colloform mineral phase might co-exist.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Stylianos Augustithis, Atlas of the Textural Patterns of Ore Minerals and Metallogenic Processes",
          "text": "As mentioned, the transition of colloform to crystalline structures is achieved mainly by the reversibility of gel to sol and possibly from sol to a solution phase out of which crystallization can take place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kula Misra, Understanding Mineral Deposits, page 106",
          "text": "The colloform ores, developed primarily in the open spaces of breccias and fractures, are inferred to be younger than disseminated ores on the basis of the following textural relationships […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a rounded, finely banded texture formed by rhythmic precipitation."
      ],
      "id": "en-colloform-en-adj-EZGurVrD",
      "links": [
        [
          "mineralogy",
          "mineralogy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mineralogy) Having a rounded, finely banded texture formed by rhythmic precipitation."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "mineralogy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colloform"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Apparently from colloid.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more colloform",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most colloform",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "colloform (comparative more colloform, superlative most colloform)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English adjectives",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Mineralogy"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1982, S. S. Augustithis, Atlas of the sphaeroidal textures and structures and their genetic significance",
          "text": "Often complex textural patterns of more than one colloform mineral phase might co-exist.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Stylianos Augustithis, Atlas of the Textural Patterns of Ore Minerals and Metallogenic Processes",
          "text": "As mentioned, the transition of colloform to crystalline structures is achieved mainly by the reversibility of gel to sol and possibly from sol to a solution phase out of which crystallization can take place.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Kula Misra, Understanding Mineral Deposits, page 106",
          "text": "The colloform ores, developed primarily in the open spaces of breccias and fractures, are inferred to be younger than disseminated ores on the basis of the following textural relationships […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having a rounded, finely banded texture formed by rhythmic precipitation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mineralogy",
          "mineralogy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mineralogy) Having a rounded, finely banded texture formed by rhythmic precipitation."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "chemistry",
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "mineralogy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "colloform"
}