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Buoyancy

Buoyancy Meaning & Definition
Buoyancy Definition And Meaning

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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