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語源

From Latin floccus (“tuft of wool”), or from French floc (“floc”), from the same Latin source.

発音

• IPA: /flɒk/
• Homophone: flock

名詞

floc (countable and uncountable, plural flocs)

1. 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).

2. (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.

動詞

floc (third-person singular simple present flocs, present participle floccing, simple past and past participle flocced)

1. (informal) To use a flocculant in (a swimming pool).
   • 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.

アナグラム

• FCOL, OFLC

発音

• IPA: /floːk/
• 韻: -oːk

名詞

flōc n

1. flatfish, flounder

派生した語

• Middle English: floke, fluke, flewke
  • English: fluke
  • Scots: fluke, fluik

参照

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “FLÓC”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.