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Webster 1913 Edition
Flotation
Flo-ta′tion
,Noun.
1.
The act, process, or state of floating.
2.
The science of floating bodies.
Center of flotation
. (Shipbuilding)
(a)
The center of any given plane of flotation.
(b)
More commonly, the middle of the length of the load water line.
Rankine.
– Plane of flotation
, or Line of flotation
the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See , 9
– Bearing
, Noun.
(c)
. Surface of flotation
(Shipbuilding)
, the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.