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noun

Flotation n.

The act, process, or state of floating.

The science of floating bodies.

(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.

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Etymology of 'Flotation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flotation" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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, ...

— The 1996 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

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