Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flotation"
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 \Flo*ta"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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
flotation
n 1: the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a
liquid) [syn: {floatation}]
2: financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares
[syn: {floatation}]
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