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FLOTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares
Synonyms:
floatation; flotation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("flotation" is a kind of...):
finance (the commercial activity of providing funds and capital)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)
Synonyms:
floatation; flotation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural phenomena
Hypernyms ("flotation" is a kind of...):
physical phenomenon (a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy)
Derivation:
float (put into the water)
float (set afloat)
float (be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom)
