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FLOCCULATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does flocculation mean?
• FLOCCULATION (noun)
The noun FLOCCULATION has 1 sense:
1. the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
Familiarity information: FLOCCULATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("flocculation" is a kind of...):
action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))
Derivation:
flocculate (form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass)
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