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noun. The act, process, or condition of floating.

noun. The act or an instance of launching or initiating, especially the floating of stocks or bonds.

noun. The capability, especially of a vehicle tread or tire, to remain on top of a soft surface, such as sand, wet ground, or snow.

noun. The process of separating different materials, especially minerals, by agitating a pulverized mixture of the materials with water, oil, and chemicals. Differential wetting of the suspended particles causes unwetted particles to be carried by air bubbles to the surface for collection.

noun. The act or state of floating.

noun. The science of floating bodies.

noun. The act of launching, or ‘floating,’ a new enterprise, a loan, a new issue of stocks or bonds, or the like.

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

noun. The science of floating bodies.

noun. Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.

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

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

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noun. the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

noun. A state of floating, or being afloat.

noun. A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.

noun. The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.

noun. financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares

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

"The fact that it had a built in flotation device made that jacket my best friend."

center of flotation  curve of flotation  line of flotation  stable flotation  surface of flotation  

line of flotation  

personal flotation device  

finance  physical phenomenon  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

air-filled  ancillary  buoyancy  coldsleep  control  

coming out  curtain raiser  debut  embarkation  embarkment