center of flotation

1. 1.

   the center of gravity of a floating object

   Synonymscentre of flotation

   Broadercenter of gravity

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Questions about center of flotation

What does center of flotation mean?

center of flotation means "the center of gravity of a floating object".

What is another word for center of flotation?

Close synonyms include centre of flotation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is center of flotation a common word?

center of flotation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.