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Flotation   /floʊtˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Flotation

noun
1.
The phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking).  Synonym: floatation.
2.
Financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares.  Synonym: floatation.



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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
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