Plural of flotation; instances of floating, systems designed to keep something afloat, or the process of making something float.
From 'flotation' (from 'float' + '-ation', a suffix from Latin '-atio'), which describes the action or process of floating. The '-ation' suffix creates nouns from verbs.
The '-ation' suffix is so common in English that we barely notice it—it's in over 10,000 words and shows how Latin word-building patterns became the backbone of modern English vocabulary!
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