Flotation
Flotation , noun
[Compare French flottation a floating, flottaison water line, from flotter to float. See Flotilla.]
1.
The act, process, or state of floating.
2.
The science of floating bodies.
3.
(Commerce & Finance) Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.
Collocations (3)
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 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.