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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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... altered, and a log of wood floats while a lump of iron sinks, just the same as they did in the days of Drake and Frobisher. The only difference is, that people thought out the underlying principle of the law of flotation, and reduced it to the generalized statement that anything will float, the weight of which is less than that of the mass displaced by it, whether it be an iron ship floating in water, or a balloon ...
— The Law and the Word • Thomas Troward


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