Flocculate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Flocculate \Floc"cu*late\, a. (Zool.)
     Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  flocculate
       v 1: cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist
            flocculated the suspended material"
       2: form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy  mass; "the
          protoplasms flocculated"