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Flotation

/fləʊˈteɪʃən/

A state of floating, or being afloat.

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noun
  1. 1

    A state of floating, or being afloat.

  2. 2

    The ability (as of a tire or snowshoes) to stay on the surface of soft ground or snow.

  3. 3

    (chemical engineering) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.

  4. 4

    The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.

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floatationnounNonstandard spelling of flotation. [A state of floating, or being afloat.]

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floatationnounNonstandard spelling of flotation. [A state of floating, or being afloat.]
waterlinenoun(nautical) A line formed by the surface of the water on the hull of a ship when she is afloat; any of a series of short lines marked on the hull to show where the waterline would be under different loadings
frothnounFoam.
waternounA barangay of Baco, Oriental Mindoro, Philippines (unconfirmed).
floatnounA buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.
buoyancynounThe ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid.
floatabilitynounThe condition of being floatable
buoyantnessnounThe state or quality of being buoyant.
floatinessnounThe quality of being floaty.
buoyancenounThe state or quality of being buoyant
flutinessnounThe state or condition of being fluty.
levitynounA lightness of manner or speech, frivolity; flippancy; a lack of appropriate seriousness; an inclination to make a joke of serious matters.
poisenounComposure; freedom from embarrassment or affectation.
billowinessnounThe state or quality of being billowy.
driftingnessnounThe state or quality of being drifting; the property of drifting or seeming to drift.
flouncinessnounThe state or quality of being flouncy
flutterationnounA state of agitation or uncertainty.
swimmingnessnounThe act or state of swimming; suffusion.
foaminessnounThe state or quality of being foamy.
fluidnessnounThe quality of being fluid.

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