Question

is precipitation technically the same as crystallization?

Answer 1

I answered this question for you last night and told you what pptn was and what crystallization was. If you don't understand those definitions or those processes you should repost and explain what you don't understand about each or both. Otherwise, your problem isn't chemistry but not knowing what technically means. Here is the hot link to the original post where I answered your follow up about technically.
http://www.jiskha.com/display.cgi?id=1439085047