flo·ta·tion /floˈteʃən/
 漂浮;開創;發行;募集


 Flo·ta·tion n.
 1. The act, process, or state of floating.
 2. The science of floating bodies.
 3. Com. & Finance Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.
 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 Bearing, n., 9 (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.

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 flotation
      n 1: the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a
           liquid without sinking) [syn: floatation]
      2: financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares
         [syn: floatation]