About The Word Buoyancy
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Buoyancy
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What's The Definition Of Buoyancy?
[n] irrepressible liveliness and good spirit; "I admired his bouyancy and persistent good humor"
[n] the property of something weightless and insubstantial [n] cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface Synonyms | Synonyms for Buoyancy: airiness | irrepressibility | perkiness Related Terms | Find terms related to Buoyancy: adaptability | airiness | ascent | bounce | bounciness | breeziness | bubbliness | buoyance | carefreeness | chirpiness | daintiness | debonairness | delicacy | downiness | effervescence | elasticity | ethereality | extensibility | exuberance | flexibility | floatability | fluffiness | foaminess | frothiness | gentleness | give | gossameriness | jauntiness | lack of weight | levitation | levity | light heart | lightheartedness | lightness | lightsomeness | liveliness | perkiness | pertness | rebound | resilience | resiliency | responsiveness | snap | softness | spring | springiness | stretch | stretchability | stretchiness | tenderness | tone | tonicity | tonus | unheaviness | volatility | weightlessness | yeastiness See Also | blitheness | cheerfulness | life | lightness | liveliness | spirit | sprightliness | weightlessness Buoyancy In Webster's Dictionary \Buoy"an*cy\, n.; pl. {Buoyancies}.
1. 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.
2. (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.
Such are buoyancies or displacements of the
different classes of her majesty's ships. --Eng.
Cyc.
3. Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the
opposite of {heaviness}; as, buoyancy of spirits.
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