Flo*ta"tion, n. (Com. & Finance)
Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue
of bonds, stock, or the like.
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.
Center of flotation.
(Shipbuilding)(a)The center of any given plane of
flotation.(b)More commonly, the middle of
the length of the load water line.Rankine. --
Plane, 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
(c). --
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.Flo*ta"tion, n. (Com. & Finance)
Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue
of bonds, stock, or the like.
