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English
White floc in a clear liquid in front of a blue background.
A floccule; a soft or fluffy particle suspended in a liquid, or the fluffy mass of suspended particles so formed.
2005 February 27, Fred A. Bernstein, “In My Backyard, Please: The Infrastructure Beautiful Movement”, in The New York Times:
It might seem that Mr. Holl, whose initial sketches are glorious watercolors, was an unlikely candidate for a job that is all about hydrodynamics. But he credits much of his inspiration to repeated meetings with engineers -- as many as 30 at a time -- to discuss topics like "flocculation" (the process by which particles form coagulated masses, or flocs).
(informal) A flocculant, as used in swimming pools to make particles clump together so they are trapped by the filter.
2023, Kristine Blanchard, Pool Care For Dummies, page 291:
This can happen for a few reasons, such as adding too much floc or adding too much algaecide prior to floccing.
Verb
floc (third-person singular simple presentflocs, present participlefloccing, simple past and past participleflocced)
