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Floatation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of flotation.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.

n. Alternative spelling of flotation.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. See flotation.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. See flotation.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)

n. financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares

Word Usage

"Students had the chance to learn about the 3D scanner and general archaeological methodology, including floatation, which is the separation of organic materials from soil, and the total station, an optical surveying instrument into which they entered the coordinates of their finds."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

physical phenomenon finance

Variant

flotation

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