Financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares

Usage examples of flotation.

He was believed to be at the moment in the environs of Queer Street, for he was mixed up with Barralty in the Lepcha Reef flotation, and that was beginning to look ugly.

But I can also make the Nautilus rise and sink, and sink and rise, by a vertical movement by means of two inclined planes fastened to its sides, opposite the centre of flotation, planes that move in every direction, and that are worked by powerful levers from the interior.

To the eyes spliced into the circumference of the net we attached the canvas flotation bags and inflated them from our air bottles.

The illustration of the swimbladder in fishes is a good one, because it shows us clearly the highly important fact that an organ originally constructed for one purpose, namely flotation, may be converted into one for a wholly different purpose, namely respiration.

Even beneficiation—concentrating ungraded material into higher-quality ore—was difficult, as they couldn’t use traditional methods like froth flotation and gravity concentration.

What's more, we got to start thinking about some kind of submarine, to really give the bottom a good scrape, and maybe rig some kind of additional flotation devices down there as well, some kind of big air bags or something.

Emptying the ballast tanks with the flotation tanks still full put positive lift on the boat.

Hornblower's eye measured the distances, forward and aft of the centre of flotation, from forty feet before to thirty feet abaft.

The haodah lashings creaked and the junqs screamed for pain, and some of the youngest sought to escape their burdens by rolling over, but their flotation bladders obliged them to right themselves, and if any riders were lost they were children and old folk too weak to cling on.

We know he had a personal flotation device, and he was hale and hearty enough to think about saving someone's skin other than his own.

There'd been line in his rucksack, but that was lying on a hillside somewhere in Albania right now, along with a flotation device, most of his shotgun ammo, and five hundred rounds of 7.

He scanned the ocean around him, praying for a glimpse of a flotation device or a rubber raft.

He fumbled open the flotation device pocket, extracted the dye marker, and broke it open.

The model was only part of the collection of memorabilia, photos, and paintings, even a flotation device, that was sprinkled around the spacious living room.

He held his rucksack in front of his body with his left hand, using it as shield and flotation device.