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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

... travelled through the hours of night. The movement of the sun was supposed to be that of floating on the heavenly ocean, figured by its being in a boat, which was probably an expression for its flotation. The elaboration of the nature of the regions through which the sun passed at night essentially belongs to the Ra theology, and only recognises the kingdom of Osiris by placing it in one of the hours of night. The old conception of the dim realm of the cemetery-god Seker occupies ...

— The Religion of Ancient Egypt • W. M. Flinders Petrie

... tools, off-highway dump trucks up to 110-metric-ton load capacity, wheel-type earth movers for construction and mining, eight-wheel-drive, high-flotation trucks with cargo capacity of 25 metric tons for use in tundra and roadless areas, equipment for animal husbandry and livestock feeding, motorcycles, television sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, linen fabric, wool fabric, ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.