buoyancy
pronunciation
How to pronounce buoyancy in British English:
UK ['bɔɪənsɪ]
How to pronounce buoyancy in American English:
US [ˈbɔɪənsi, ˈbujən-]
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- Noun:
- cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface
- the property of something weightless and insubstantial
- irrepressible liveliness and good spirit
Word Origin
- buoyancy (n.)
- 1713, from buoyant + -cy. Figurative sense (of spirits, etc.) is from 1819.
Example
- 1. Buoyancy is not a property of individual water molecules .
- 2. One measure of its buoyancy is the industry 's resilience in the face of a series of recent setbacks .
- 3. The bigger the balloon , the more collisions and the greater the buoyancy force .
- 4. There is the gravitational force and a force we like to call the buoyancy force .
- 5. The constraints that generate the crystal also generate an emergent property , namely , buoyancy .