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