·noun The science of floating bodies.
II. Flotation ·noun The act, process, or state of floating.
III. Flotation ·add. ·noun Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.
·add. ·- A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositin...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Those horizontal marks supposed to be described by the surface of the water on the bottom of a ship,...
The Sailor's Word-Book