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Flotation   /floʊtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
noun
Flotation  n.  
1.
The act, process, or state of floating.
2.
The science of floating bodies.
3.
(Com. & Finance) Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.
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.
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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Flotation" Quotes from Famous Books



... cold stone breathing hard for several minutes; then I managed to drag the light shell out and empty her, after which I tore up a strip of the cedar flooring to form a paddle, and found that though one side was crushed the damage was mostly above flotation level. It would serve no purpose to narrate the return passage, and it was sufficiently arduous, but a man in the poorest craft with a paddle has four times the power of any swimmer, and at last I reached the shingle, which was almost ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... the air at the will of the operator, but make respectable progress in whatever direction he may desire to go. The glider, it must be remembered, is not steerable, except to a limited extent, and moves only in one direction—against the wind. Besides this its power of flotation—suspension in the air—is circumscribed. ...
— Flying Machines - Construction and Operation • W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
... back until they fell, and left him only the mad swirling foam to contend with. This last was bad enough, but here his great muscular strength and his inexhaustible caloric, with his cork-like power of flotation, enabled him to hold his own without exhaustion until another opportunity of piercing an unbroken wave offered. Thus he gradually forced his way through and beyond the worst breakers, which are always those nearest ...
— Charlie to the Rescue • R.M. Ballantyne
... tools, off-highway dump trucks up to 110-metric-ton load capacity, wheel-type earth movers for construction and mining, eight-wheel-drive, high-flotation trucks with cargo capacity of 25 metric tons for use in tundra and roadless areas, equipment for animal husbandry and livestock feeding, motorcycles, television sets, chemical fibers, fertilizer, linen fabric, wool fabric, radios, refrigerators, ...
— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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