flocculus
Americannoun
-
flocculi
plural
-
Astronomy. one of the bright or dark patches on the sun's surface, visible in a spectroheliogram.
noun
-
a marking on the sun's surface or in its atmosphere, as seen on a spectroheliogram. It consists of calcium when lighter than the surroundings and of hydrogen when darker
-
anatomy a tiny ovoid prominence on each side of the cerebellum
-
another word for floccule
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of flocculus
From New Latin, dating back to 1790–1800; see origin at floccule
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Each flocculus, in describing its course, must give motion to the medium through which it is moving.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
They develop just after the sun's surface shows "calcium flocculi": a nubbly appearance that signals an unusually large output of ultraviolet light.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then he did the same for variations in the sun's flocculi.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a concentrating nebula these will, in the majority of cases, eventually coalesce with the larger flocculi near to them.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
When radiation has adequately lowered the temperature, these molecules will precipitate; and, having precipitated, they will not remain uniformly diffused, but will aggregate into flocculi; just as water, precipitated from air, collects into clouds.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
The degree of condensation causing spiral movement, is a degree of condensation also implying masses of flocculi that are larger, and therefore more visible, than those existing in an earlier stage.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
