Flotation /(?)/

Flo·ta·tion

Flotation

n.
  1. The act, process, or state of floating.
  2. The science of floating bodies.
  3. Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like. (Com. & Finance)

Phrases & Compounds
Center of flotation
The center of any given plane of flotation.
Plane 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
the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.