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. ]
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 ]
‖n.; pl.Flocculi [ NL., dim. of L. floccus a lock or flock of wool. ] (Anat.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n.; pl.Flocci [ L., a flock of wool. ] 1. (Zool.) (a) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Bot.) A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi. [ 1913 Webster ]
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