buoyancy
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- noun
- /ˈbɔɪənsi/
- Specialized
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flotabilidad
- In one study, eighth-grade students solved problems relating to buoyancy, mass, and volume using a simulated helium balloon.
- auxiliary buoyancy
- inherent buoyancy
- positive buoyancy
And it's that increase that gives you the buoyancy force pushing up on the ball.
- And it's that increase that gives you the buoyancy force pushing up on the ball.
- We call it the neutral buoyancy laboratory.
- Well, actually now going scuba diving, if I can control my buoyancy and breathe underwater, awesome.
- Big old lungs allow for more oxygen, more strength, and more buoyancy.
- They couldn't the like the buoyancy device that would like get them back up wasn't working.
- And if you end up with buoyancy, which is the Chinese increment above neutral buoyancy, you just go up.
- Fluid displaced its volume and its weight and finally buoyancy.
- They do have the buoyancy studies as well, but buoyancy studies are, you know, they're difficult to do it for a long period of time.
Examples
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Jean stopped feeling tired, her arms and legs trusting the buoyancy of the water, moving easily stroke after stroke.
Fiction book (1999) -
It's just the right buoyancy that it floats right on the top of the water.
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And it's that increase that gives you the buoyancy force pushing up on the ball.
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So that means that buoyancy has nothing to do with the strength of gravity.
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We call it the neutral buoyancy laboratory.
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There's not enough forward buoyancy.
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The floating man had descended halfway to the floor, as if he were slowly losing buoyancy.
Fiction book (1998) -
Reaching still deeper water, she feels the uplift as the ocean gives her buoyancy.
Fiction book (1995) -
Their luster faded, the chimes fell silent; they lost their buoyancy and tumbled to the ground.
Fiction book (1993) -
A boat's buoyancy allows it to float on the surface of the water.
Synonyms
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The ability to stay on the surface of a liquid without sinking
The state of staying on the surface of water without sinking
An upward force that pushes things up in water or air
Compounds
- Specialized
The point in a floating object where the water pushes up on the part under water
How Buoyant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Buoyancy comes from buoy, a floating object used at sea, and that word comes from an old Dutch word meaning 'to float'. So, buoyancy is the power or ability to 'float' in water, air, or another fluid.