Surface of flotation

(Shipbuilding) the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

See also: Flotation

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