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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Flocculation \Floc`cu*la"tion\, n. (Geol.) 1. The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps. [1913 Webster] 2. The process or event in which masses of a solid substance of perceptible size form in a liquid by aggregation of smaller particles, and usually sediment to the bottom of the containing vessel; as, addition of a cationic polymer can cause flocculation of a negatively charged colloidal suspension. [PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

flocculation n 1: the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations