FLOTATION

flotation, floatation

(noun) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares

flotation, floatation

(noun) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

flotation (countable and uncountable, plural flotations)

A state of floating, or being afloat.

The ability (as of a tire or snowshoes) to stay on the surface of soft ground or snow.

(mining, chemical engineering) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.

(British, finance) The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.

Source: Wiktionary

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Flo*ta"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. flottation a floating, flottaison water line, fr. flotter to float. See Flotilla.]

1. The act, process, or state of floating.

2. The science of floating bodies. 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. Rankine.

– Plane, 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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