[
US
/fɫoʊˈteɪʃən/
]
[ UK /fləʊtˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /fləʊtˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)
- financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares
How To Use flotation In A Sentence
- The flotation, which was 20 times oversubscribed, was a huge success.
- The modified expoxies, ie, those with plasticizers added to improve workability, were found to be incompatible with the fluorocarbon flotation fluids.
- Hydrotherapy - relaxed swimming and flotation decrease the energy required in everyday life just to support the body weight, allowing the diversion of this energy to recovery.
- It came in a week when Scottish businessmen were making waves in a number of areas in which Scotland is supposed to be no good: entrepreneurialism, flotation and building global businesses overseas.
- The fund will invest about 80% of its portfolio in quoted stocks in both Europe and the US with the remaining 20% investing in unquoted health and biotech companies which are about 18 months away from flotation.
- The investment bank has put its flotation plans on hold because of the weak market and business conditions.
- A flotation ring was thrown to him and he hooked it with one arm, wrapping the other around her waist as they were pulled toward the cruiser.
- Some of the most common separation techniques are leaching, flotation, filtration, chromatography, and centrifugal force.
- Using inflatable toys and a PFD for flotation, participants swim down a stretch of the river.
- Vane-like or bubble-like structures present particularly on scandent forms may have aided flotation if they were gas-filled.