FLOTATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)