0 present participle of flock
1 to move or come together in large numbers:
[ + to infinitive ] Crowds of people flocked to see the Picasso exhibition.
2 to cover a surface with a soft material in order to decorate it:
Nor do we find star actors flocking to be in such plays or films.
The crinolined women clustered beneath her seem handmaidens flocking to attend her entrance: even a greyhound follows her queenly progress.
As part of this exercise different cooperative algorithms such as hybrid flocking, leader-follower and formation flying were considered.
The latter indicates that flocking propensities of species change as a result of habitat degradation.
Flocking is used in these instances as a way for crowds to follow paths determined using by pathfinding routines.
Frequency of mixed-species flocking in tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison.
The survival value of flocking in neotropical birds: reality or fiction?
Frequency of mixed species flocking in tropical forest birds and correlates of predation risk: an intertropical comparison.