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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flotation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
flotation tank
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
market
▪ Now he's leading the company's stock market flotation, an exercise which brings a personal bonus of £1.3m.
▪ The group was set to make £40m profit this year: a stock market flotation loomed.
tank
▪ All right then, how many of your would like to try a session in a flotation tank?
▪ The difference between a flotation tank and other relaxation techniques is that other methods require effort on the part of the patient.
▪ For the ultimate in relaxation, few treatments can beat the experience of a flotation tank.
▪ Clients wash and shower before entering the flotation tank.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The money from the share flotation will be used to strengthen the company's financial position.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All right then, how many of your would like to try a session in a flotation tank?
▪ At the time of its flotation I had an argument with some one who was planning to invest in it.
▪ However, with a flotation come outside shareholders and a proportionate loss of control.
▪ Now he's leading the company's stock market flotation, an exercise which brings a personal bonus of £1.3m.
▪ Profit predictions for 1992 at the time of flotation in 1989 were around £20m.
▪ The shares were the remainder of those allotted to Abbey National savers and borrowers at the time of its flotation.
▪ The stock market's recent steady performance in the run up to the water issue has helped ensure the success of the flotation.
▪ The stock market debutant has lost 70 % of its value since its flotation last month.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Flotation

Flotation \Flo*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. flottation a floating, flottaison water line, fr. flotter to float. See Flotilla.]

  1. The act, process, or state of floating.

  2. The science of floating bodies.

  3. (Com. & Finance) Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like. Center of flotation. (Shipbuilding)

    1. The center of any given plane of flotation.

    2. More commonly, the middle of the length of the load water line.
      --Rankine.

      Plane of flotation, or Line of flotation, the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See Bearing, n., 9

    3. .

      Surface of flotation (Shipbuilding), the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
flotation

1765, from float (v.) + -ation. Spelling influenced by French flotaison (compare floatation).

Wiktionary
flotation

alt. 1 A state of floating, or being afloat. 2 (context mining English) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles. 3 (context British finance English) The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue. n. 1 A state of floating, or being afloat. 2 (context mining English) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles. 3 (context British finance English) The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.

WordNet
flotation
  1. n. the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) [syn: floatation]

  2. financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares [syn: floatation]

Wikipedia
Flotation

Flotation (historically spelled floatation) involves phenomena related to the relative buoyancy of objects.

The term may refer to:

  • Flotation, any material added to the hull of a watercraft to keep the hull afloat
  • Flotation process, in process engineering, a method for the separation of mixtures
    • Froth flotation, a process for separating hydrophobic from hydrophilic materials
    • Dissolved air flotation (DAF), a water treatment process
    • Induced gas flotation, a water treatment process that clarifies wastewaters (or other waters) by the removal of suspended matter such as oil or solids
  • Floatation (song), a 1990 electronic music song by The Grid
  • Flotation (shares), an initial public offering of stocks or shares in a company
  • Flotation therapy, a technique which uses Isolation

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.