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Definition: Flocculation |
FlocculationNoun1. The process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | Settling from a suspension by the agglomeration of particles into groups or flocks. Source: European Union. (references) |
Electrical Engineering | Separation of radioactive waste products from water by coagulation of an insoluble precipitate. Source: European Union. (references) |
Environment | Process by which clumps of solids in water or sewage aggregate through biological or chemical action so they can be separated from water or sewage. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The coalescence, with precipitation, of dispersed(i. e. , deflocculated)clay particles in the form of loose clusters(flocs)upon addition of sufficient electrolyte, particularly H or Ca ions, to a clay or water. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | An aggregation in flocs of fibres etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The process by which a number of individual, minute suspended particles are tightly held together in clotlike masses, or are loosely aggregated or precipitated into small lumps, clusters, or granules; e.g., the joining of soil colloids into a small group of soil particles, or the deposition or settling out of suspension of clay particles in salt water.See also:coagulation; floc. (references) |
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Crosswords: Flocculation |
| Specialty definitions using "flocculation": demulsification, Direct Filtration, dispersing agent. (references) |
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Business | Process water pre-treatment or wastewater modalities include biological treatment, activated sludge reduction, chemical coagulation, flocculation, filtration, oxidation, incineration and activated carbon adsorption. (references) | |
Economic History | Malaysia | Treatment methods are primarily conventional and include flocculation, sedimentation, gravity filtration, and disinfection. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Flocculation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Flocculation" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 15 | 90,616 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "flocculation": Flocculation Tests. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "flocculation": micro-flocculation. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flocculation | 24 |
flocculation and coagulation | 4 |
chemical flocculation | 3 |
chamber flocculation | 2 |
electro flocculation | 2 |
flocculation sedimentation | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "flocculation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 絮凝. (various references) | |
Danish | fnugdannelse, flokning (breaking), flokkulering, flokkulation, sammenklumpning (caking, clumping, congestion, crowding, overcrowding). (various references) | |
Dutch | flocculeren, flocculatie (breaking), vlokvorming (breaking), uitvlokking, uitvlokken (flocculate), het uitvlokken. (various references) | |
Finnish | flokkulointi, flokkulaatio, höytälöityminen (breaking), höytälöinti. (various references) | |
French | floculation (flocculating). (various references) | |
German | Flokkulation (coagulation), Flockung (breaking, coagulation), Flockulierung, Zusammenballung (accumulation, clump, congregation), Zusammenballen (agglomerate), Bruchbildung, Ausflockung (coagulation), Ausflocken (coagulation, flocculate, précipitation). (various references) | |
Greek | κροκίδωση (breaking). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הפתתה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pelyheződés, pelyhesedés, pelyhesítés, pehelykiválás, pehelykicsapódás, flokkuláció, csomósítás. (various references) | |
Italian | flocculazione (breaking). (various references) | |
Korean | 응집. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | occulationflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | floculação (breaking, floc, floccule). (various references) | |
Spanish | floculación (breaking, floc, floccule). (various references) | |
Swedish | flockulering, flockulation, flockning (breaking), skärning (intersection, cutting). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự lên bông, sự kết bông (flocculence). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "flocculation": flocculations. (additional references) | |
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"Flocculation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: floccilation, floculation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "flocculation" (pronounced 'Floc`cu*la"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-f-i-l-l-n-o-o-t-u" | |
-1 letter: conflictual. | |
-2 letters: allocution, flocculant. | |
-3 letters: collation, olfaction. | |
-4 letters: coaction, cocoanut, colonial, conflict, confocal, cotillon, flocculi, lactonic, location, locution. | |
-5 letters: account, antiflu, auction, calculi, caution, coconut, colonic, conical, coolant, council, cullion, faction, fallout, folacin, inocula, laconic, linocut, lunatic, octanol, outfall, outlain, toilful. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-f-i-l-l-n-o-o-t-u" | |
+1 letter: flocculations. | |
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