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What does flotation mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word flotation? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A state of floating, or being afloat.
  2. The ability (as of a tire or snowshoes) to stay on the surface of soft ground or snow.
  3. (mining) A process of separating minerals by agitating a mixture with water and detergents etc; selected substances being carried to the surface in air bubbles.
  4. (Britain, finance) The launching onto the market of a tranch of stocks or shares, usually a new issue.
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It takes a lot of yoga, massage or t'ai chi to achieve the level of relaxation which follows twenty minutes of flotation in the salt pool.
The latter represented a well-designed mixture of granulated acidic slag and flotation sterile material.
Meanwhile health clubs and beauty salons are marketing t'ai chi, saunas, mini-facials and flotation tanks as a means of surviving the pressure.
A flotation tank is like a huge bath, about the width and length of a king-size bed.
The brothers have performed amazingly over the past year, due largely to the flotation of their joint venture company.
Privatization without flotation on the stock market means either a management buy-out or sale by tender.

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