flocculate

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: Inside the wells of this plate are yeast engineered with a genetic timer that causes them to flocculate, or aggregate to form sediment in a solution, at different times.

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  1. transitive verb To cause (soil) to form lumps or masses.
  2. transitive verb To cause (clouds) to form fluffy masses.
  3. intransitive verb To form lumpy or fluffy masses.
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  • : Inside the wells of this plate are yeast engineered with a genetic timer that causes them to flocculate, or aggregate to form sediment in a solution, at different times. —  Technology Review RSS Feeds
  • The feed water to the DAF flotation tank (also called the float tank] is often, but not always, first dosed with flocculent chemicals (such as aluminum sulfate) to coagulate and flocculate the suspended matter. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
 

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  1. from New Latin flocculus + -ate.
  2. floccul(us)+ -ate.
 

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