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Definition of Surface of flotation
Surface of flotation Flotation Flo*ta"tion, n. [Cf. F. flottation a floating,
flottaison water line, fr. flotter to float. See Flotilla.]
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, 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.