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Physics' way of saying some things float by refusing to sink into their problems.
means The act or capacity of floating, or the financial sense of launching a company or loan onto the market.
from Built from 'float,' which traces back through Old English 'flotian' to a Germanic root meaning to swim or drift on water, related to 'fleet' and 'flow.' The '-ation' suffix, borrowed from Latin, turns the simple verb into a formal noun of process. The financial meaning — floating shares onto a market — emerged by extending the water imagery: a company set adrift on the currents of capital, sinking or swimming by public confidence.
- the principle
- displaced water weight equals floating object weight
- ships work
- steel floats by shape, not material
- sensory deprivation
- flotation tanks use dense salt water to float bodies
- archimedes
- allegedly discovered it naked, in a bathtub