Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The tendency or capacity to remain afloat in a liquid or rise in air or gas.
- noun The upward force that a fluid exerts on an object less dense than itself.
- noun Ability to recover quickly from setbacks; resilience.
- noun Lightness of spirit; cheerfulness.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being buoyant, that is, of floating in or on the surface of water or other fluids; relative lightness.
- noun The power of supporting a body so that it floats: said of a fluid; specifically, the upward pressure exerted upon a body by the fluid in which it is immersed.
- noun Figuratively, light-heartedness; cheerfulness; hopefulness; elasticity of spirit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
- noun (Physics) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
- noun Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of
heaviness .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun physics The
upward force on abody immersed or partly immersed in afluid . - noun The ability of an object to
stay afloat in afluid . - noun by extension
Resilience orcheerfulness .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the tendency to float in water or other liquid
- noun cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
- noun irrepressible liveliness and good spirit
- noun the property of something weightless and insubstantial
Etymologies
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Examples
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Analysis shows that this buoyancy is attributable mainly to an improvement in our manufacturing industries.
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The aeroplane does; and the instant its propellers cease to revolve, its buoyancy is lost.
Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors 2008
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The buoyancy is thus destroyed and you can then do what you like with the submarine by working motors and hydroplanes to take her to any depth required,
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To explain the dive I have to show you how to remove the buoyancy from a submarine.
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They laugh their heads off at the other dive school that misspelled the word buoyancy so badly that is says bouncy on the sign outside outside the shop.
Tenerife, lost count of the days nathreee 2010
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They laugh their heads off at the other dive school that misspelled the word buoyancy so badly that is says bouncy on the sign outside outside the shop.
Tenerife, lost count of the days nathreee 2010
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The gauge shows an ounce of buoyancy, which is nearly enough to counteract all the dead weight we have.
Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass
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His buoyancy was a perpetual, never-failing tonic for doubt and discouragement, and I have yet to witness him confronted with a situation that could in the least dash his spirits.
The Paternoster Ruby Charles Edmonds Walk
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The reserve buoyancy, that is the total lifting capacity aside from the weight of the airship and its equipment, is estimated at three tons.
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The reserve buoyancy, that is the total lifting capacity aside from the weight of the airship and its equipment, is estimated at three tons.
Flying Machines: construction and operation; a practical book which shows, in illustrations, working plans and text, how to build and navigate the modern airship Octave Chanute 1871
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