floatation
- n the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)
- n financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares
- Finally, in 1941, Papillon escapes definitively, floating away from Devil's Island on a pair of tide-driven bags stuffed with coconuts to serve as food and floatation.
- The dancing penguins, alas; and the scene with Ed Wynn as a giggling floatation device, hurrah.