Flotation

[fləʊ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or [flo'teʃən]

Definition

(noun.) financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares.

(noun.) the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking).

Editor: Tess--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The act, process, or state of floating.

(n.) The science of floating bodies.

Editor: Nell

Definition

n. the act of floating: the science of floating bodies: act of floating a company or commercial enterprise.—Plane or Line of flotation the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it.

Typed by Brian