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/floʊtˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Flotation n.

The act, process, or state of floating.

The science of floating bodies.

(Com. & Finance) Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.

Center of flotation. (Shipbuilding)

(a)

The center of any given plane of flotation.

(b)

More commonly, the middle of the length of the load water line.

Plane of flotation, or Line of flotation, the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See Bearing, n., 9 (c).

Surface of flotation (Shipbuilding), the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

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Etymology of 'Flotation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flotation" Quotes from Famous Books

... He leaned across the desk and spoke with bitter intensity. "You're high-grading and you should be using a flotation process." ...

— The Great Gray Plague • Raymond F. Jones

... a horizontal plan, I use an ordinary rudder fixed on the back of the stern-post, and with one wheel and some tackle to steer by. But I can also make the Nautilus rise and sink, and sink and rise, by a vertical movement by means of two inclined planes fastened to its sides, opposite the centre of flotation, planes that move in every direction, and that are worked by powerful levers from the interior. If the planes are kept parallel with the boat, it moves horizontally. If slanted, the Nautilus, according ...

— Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea • Jules Verne

... to be delicately built, with a specific gravity near that of the sea-water, with adaptations, such as projecting filaments, which help flotation, and with capacities of rising and sinking according to the surrounding conditions. Many of them are luminescent, and many of them are very inconspicuous in the water owing to their transparency or their bluish colour. In both cases the ...

— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson

... inflated by blowing through the tube formed by the skin of the limb; the inflation completed, this was suddenly twisted round and tied. The skin thus filled looked like an exaggerated water-skin; the power of flotation was so great, that about a dozen men hung on to the legs of the tetel, and to each other's shoulders, when we launched it in the river. This plan is well worthy of the attention of military men; troops, when on service, ...

— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker

... to allotment," he said. "I warned you that the applications for our stock were quite insufficient to warrant the flotation of the concern at the time, but you apparently lost your heads over those specimens, and you overruled me. Now it's unpleasantly evident that we cannot expect to go on much longer, and I venture to predict a voluntary liquidation during the ...

— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss

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