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3 definitions found 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 1.6 [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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