buoyancy

buoyancy
Synonyms and related words:
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

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  • Buoyancy — 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. [1913 Webster] 2.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • buoyancy — / buoyance [n1] lightness in weight airiness, ethereality, floatability, levity, weightlessness; concept 734 Ant. heaviness buoyancy / buoyance [n2] lightness in spirit animation, bounce, cheerfulness, cheeriness, ebullience, effervescence,… …   New thesaurus

  • buoyancy — 1713, from BUOYANT (Cf. buoyant) + CY (Cf. cy). Figurative sense (of spirits, etc.) is from 1819 …   Etymology dictionary

  • buoyancy — [boi′ən sē; ] also [ bo͞o′yənsē] n. [< BUOYANT] 1. the ability or tendency to float or rise in liquid or air 2. the power to keep something afloat; upward pressure on a floating object 3. lightness or resilience of spirit …   English World dictionary

  • Buoyancy — The forces at work in buoyancy In physics, buoyancy (  / …   Wikipedia

  • buoyancy — [[t]bɔ͟ɪ͟ənsi[/t]] 1) N UNCOUNT Buoyancy is the ability that something has to float on a liquid or in the air. Air can be pumped into the diving suit to increase buoyancy. 2) N UNCOUNT Buoyancy is a person s ability to remain cheerful, even in… …   English dictionary

  • buoyancy — buoyant buoy‧ant [ˈbɔɪənt ǁ ˈbɔɪənt, ˈbuːjənt] adjective a buoyant market, economy etc is successful and has a lot of trading activity, and prices are rising rather than falling: • There is also a buoyant market for expensive Swiss watches. •… …   Financial and business terms

  • buoyancy — buoy|an|cy [ bɔıənsi, bujənsi ] noun uncount 1. ) the quality of being able to float: The raft lacked buoyancy. a ) the ability of a liquid to make things float in it 2. ) a feeling of happiness and confidence: an atmosphere of optimism and… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • buoyancy — noun (U) 1 the ability of an object to float: the buoyancy of light wood 2 the power of a liquid to make an object float: Salt water has more buoyancy than fresh water. 3 a feeling of cheerfulness and belief that you can deal with problems easily …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • buoyancy — UK [ˈbɔɪənsɪ] / US / US [ˈbujənsɪ] noun [uncountable] 1) a) the quality of being able to float The raft lacked buoyancy. b) the ability of a liquid to make things float in it 2) a feeling of happiness and confidence an atmosphere of optimism and… …   English dictionary

  • buoyancy — noun Buoyancy is used before these nouns: ↑aid …   Collocations dictionary

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