flotāˈtion noun

1. The act of floating
2. The science of floating bodies
3. The act of starting a business, esp a limited liability company, by drawing up various documents and raising capital by selling shares
4. (also froth flotation) a method of separating ore from the rock in which it is embedded by forming a froth, the ore particles clinging to the bubbles

flotation therapy noun (medicine)

An alternative therapy for stress in which the patient floats for about an hour in a sealed salt-water-filled capsule (a flotation tank or float tank), sometimes with music piped in

plane or line of flotation

The plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it

froth /froth/

1. Foam
2. Chatter (figurative)
3. Something frivolous or trivial

To cause froth on

To make froth

frothˈery noun

Mere froth

frothˈily adverb

frothˈiness noun

frothˈless adjective

frothˈy adjective

1. Full of or like froth or foam
2. Empty
3. Insubstantial

frothˈ-blower noun (slang)

A beer-drinker

froth flotation see flotation under flote

frothˈ-fly or frothˈ-hopper noun

A frog-hopper (qv under frog¹)

froth-foˈmy adjective (Spenser)

Foaming