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Cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
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buoyancy
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Word definitions for buoyancy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1713, from buoyant + -cy . Figurative sense (of spirits, etc.) is from 1819.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Buoyancy \Buoy"an*cy\, n.; pl. Buoyancies . The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water. (Physics) The upward ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the buoyancy of light wood EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few other sectors have some buoyancy . ▪ Its chanting quality sounds a note of buoyancy and music in the evocation of the enormity of the Crucifixion. ▪ Six-year-old ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en physics) The upward force on a body immersed or partly immersed in a fluid. 2 The ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid. 3 (label en by extension) resilience or cheerfulness.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface [syn: perkiness ] the property of something weightless and insubstantial [syn: airiness ] irrepressible liveliness and good spirit; "I admired his bouyancy and persistent good humor" [syn: irrepressibility ]
Usage examples of buoyancy.
They were circular disks, two kilometres in diameter when they matured, made from polyp that was foamed like a sponge for buoyancy.
I could not get around the fact that many of these other boats could rise faster than ours by the fact of their greater buoyancy, but I was none the less determined to reach the outer world far in advance of them or die a death of my own choosing in event of failure.
It is really one of the maladies of American democracy to be swept by these prairie fires of pseudo-scientifc fads, and throw itself into Eugenics or Anthropometric inquiry with the buoyancy of babies.
Legs found a polystyrene box, which they broke up and stuffed down their smocks for buoyancy.
I have also developed a mechanism that can heat and recondense the hydrogen gas to increase our buoyancy.
They altered their buoyancy, lifting from the long trenches they had made in the ooze and drifting on cold currents until they reached the maws of nearby subduction channels.
They altered their buoyancy, lifting from the long trenches they had made in the ooze and drifting on cold currents until they reached the maws of nearby subduction channels .
Flooding the hangar chamber of the DDS changed the buoyancy of the Archerfish by several tons.
The cerebrospinal fluid supplies a buoyancy that almost entirely neutralizes gravitational pull within the skull.
There was no spring in Condy that morning, no elasticity, none of his natural buoyancy.
Usually the dead Sperm Whale floats with great buoyancy, with its side or belly considerably elevated above the surface.
As the tanks emptied, Kaliningrad grew lighter and the forces of buoyancy began to move her upward.
He put on his diving hood, then slid his arms into his vestlike buoyancy compensator-the double bladders of which would draw their air from his tank-and fastened the quickrelease buckles of its cummerbund around his waist.
Unlike a raft, which depended upon the buoyancy of its structural materials to float, the principle of the Sharamudoi watercraft was to enclose a pocket of air within a wooden shell.
I inflated all twelve cones with air and I filled each buoyancy chamber with the requisite ten litres of sea water.