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The phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid)
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floatation
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Word definitions for floatation in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Floatation \Float*a"tion\, n. See Flotation .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) [syn: flotation ] financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares [syn: flotation ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Rubber Girl stores easy in raft or can be blown up to add extra floatation .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (alternative spelling of flotation English) n. (alternative spelling of flotation English)
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1806, the older, more etymological, but less popular spelling of flotation .
Usage examples of floatation.
The weight hit me like a hammer and I collapsed back into the floatation gel.
When Bobby got high enough on the idea to quit his regular job, Meyer put in the money and they formed a little partnership and named it Floatation Associates.
That evening at anchor aboard the Busted Flush the three Floatation associates were edgy.
Monday we took the Flush out and anchored her over the wreck and worked all day in shifts, beefing up those places where Palacio thought the floatation might come busting out, and also cutting through some interior bulkheads to make a free flow of water through all the belowdecks areas, and fastening some plywood against the inside of the hull where the big hole was.
The Busted Flush was still burdened with the gear and goop of Floatation Associates.
The SEALs left their two floatation bags with one holder and dove into the restless water no more than eight feet deep here to check for floating mines or steel bars and other obstacles that would rip apart a landing craft.
They scanned it, estimated the distance, then went underwater and opened the floatation bags.
Twelve miles in the open sea with neither fins nor floatation devices was going to be murder, pure and simple.
It takes only a few pounds of floatation to keep the average-sized man on the surface.
She glanced down at her grey spandex suit, but most of it was hidden by the floatation device.
The yellow pin indicates the finding of a floatation collar device only.
Four years of Boy Scouts told him that detergent bottles made good floatation devices in a pinch.
He leaned back with a floatation cushion under his head like he was king of the lake and let Lester row to a stretch of virgin shoreline.