Wordnet 3.0
VERB (2)
1.
form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass;
- Example: "the protoplasms flocculated"2.
cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate;
- Example: "The chemist flocculated the suspended material"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Flocculated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Flocculating.] (Geol.)
To aggregate into small lumps.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, a. (Zool.)
Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, v. t.
To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make
granular or crumbly; as, the flocculating of a soil improves
its mechanical condition.
When applied to clay soils it [lime] binds the small
particles together, or flocculates them. --I. P.
Roberts.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
flocculate
v 1: form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the
protoplasms flocculated"
2: cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist
flocculated the suspended material"