Flotation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Flotation	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Flotation
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
flotation n the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) Synonym(s): flotation, floatation financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares Synonym(s): flotation, floatation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flotation \Flo*ta"tion\, n. (Com. & Finance) Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Flotation \Flota"tion\, n. [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.