Plane of flotation

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the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See Bearing, n., 9 (c).
- Rankine.

See also: Flotation

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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