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buoyancy

/boi-uhn-see, boo-yuhn-see/US // ˈbɔɪ ən si, ˈbu yən si //UK // (ˈbɔɪənsɪ) //

浮力,浮动

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
    • : the power of supporting a body so that it floats; upward pressure exerted by the fluid in which a body is immersed.
    • : lightness or resilience of spirit:Student well-being and buoyancy are especially important because of the relatively high incidence of depression and suicide.

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Examples

  • Powder skis, which must float, achieve buoyancy mainly by sheer surface area, but on corn or boilerplate or wind-whipped, sunbaked, supportable mank, a wide ski is a slow ski edge to edge.

  • If it were pushed downward, then its buoyancy should decrease, allowing it to fall below the underside of the levitated liquid.

  • Its recent buoyancy arises from relatively robust GDP growth through early this year and its status as the world’s reserve currency.

  • This buoyancy allows it to undertake a four-day week experiment and could also be because of it.

  • Diving rings sit at the bottom of a pool because they have a lot of mass but don’t take up much space, so the force of gravity beats buoyancy.

  • And despite the good scholarship the authors have managed to retain the buoyancy and upbeat air attendant on most comics.

  • Sudden peace, buoyancy, contentment, or alternatively sorrow or physical pain.

  • Buoyancy protects the most vulnerable parts of our skeleton.

  • Blame it, he says, on buoyancy, which “reduces the energy expenditure associated with swimming.”

  • You are a Cheever, my father would tell his children with a buoyancy in his voice which suggested both seriousness and mockery.

  • She always seemed to be fairly bursting with youthful energy, and no bird could rival her buoyancy.

  • Unluckily, Bob had not counted on that extra weight of stone inside, nor on the loss of the buoyancy of the water.

  • He saw in it, the buoyancy of youth under the influence of agreeable company, and a cloudless day.

  • The buoyancy tanks in the lifeboats were of 18 ounce copper, and of capacity to meet the board of trade requirements.

  • But the buoyancy of the Polish character helped the nation to recover sooner from this severe blow than could have been expected.