01 n. The act, process, or state of floating.
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The act, process, or state of floating.
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2.
The science of floating bodies.
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3.
Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.(Com. & Finance)
Phrases & compounds
Center of flotation —
The center of any given plane of flotation.
Plane 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 —
the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.