Capacity for floating lightly.
♦ Centre of buoyancy, in naval architecture, the mean centre of that part of the vessel which is immersed in the water. (See centre of cavity.)
·noun Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; — the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
, are synonymous terms in naval architecture for the mean centre of that part of a vessel which is i...
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