Archimedes discovered the principle of buoyancy and displacement. From LearnThat.org. [Rollo C. Hester]
I admired his buoyancy and persistent good humor. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Analysis shows that this buoyancy is attributable mainly to an improvement in our manufacturing industries. From Wordnik.com. [The State of the Economy] Reference
To explain the dive I have to show you how to remove the buoyancy from a submarine. From Wordnik.com. [A Glimpse Into A Submarine] Reference
The aeroplane does; and the instant its propellers cease to revolve, its buoyancy is lost. From Wordnik.com. [Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors] Reference
The gauge shows an ounce of buoyancy, which is nearly enough to counteract all the dead weight we have. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
The design strategy of charged ion / shaped plasma 'buoyancy' devices does bear some relevancy here. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
The engineer said, The design strategy of charged ion shaped plasma 'buoyancy' devices does bear some relevancy here. From Wordnik.com. [Posthuman Blues] Reference
He's someone who's gone way over the edge, he's come back laughing and there's a real kind of buoyancy about him all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
The bald figures, however, suggest that, for all the "buoyancy" of the mood last night, the art market is still in the doldrums. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
He said: "The tanks would have only a little fuel so there was lot of air which gave it buoyancy, which is why it stayed afloat. From Wordnik.com. [mirror.co.uk - Home] Reference
"And there was a sort of buoyancy in the research.". From Wordnik.com. [Books: A New Day For Ms. Millay] Reference
That's positive affect, buoyancy that's infectious. From Wordnik.com. [Joe Robinson: The Real Law of Attraction: The Science-Backed Success Trait] Reference
I think the buoyancy calculations are a tricky thing. From Wordnik.com. [Geek Your Father's Day] Reference
Shandean buoyancy, and unblemished by overwrought sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Delivered from gravity and buoyancy, I flew around in space. ''. From Wordnik.com. [One Fantastic Voyage] Reference
The buoyancy of this image stayed with him for the rest of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Free Time] Reference
It would pit experience versus excitement, gravitas versus buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [LET THEM EAT A BIT MORE CHEESE] Reference
Once that happens, Europe's economy may recapture its previous buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Boom Has Come And Gone] Reference
(Unintelligible) Mr. DENMEAD: Wind is, once again, you know, buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [Geek Your Father's Day] Reference
And I do have to kind of get some kind of buoyancy to my voice before I go on. From Wordnik.com. [Soul Singer Bettye LaVette Plays Not My Job] Reference
Hence we very much doubt the buoyancy of the employment data will last much longer. From Wordnik.com. [Unemployment claimant count rises unexpectedly] Reference
Trent resumed his walk, but more slowly; the buoyancy seemed suddenly gone out of his step. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Mental buoyancy and even exhilaration are among the most common sequences of electric baths. From Wordnik.com. [The Electric Bath] Reference
In time, however, her grief grew less insistent and she began to gain something of her old buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
The memories she recovered in the buoyancy of leaving was of a lost afternoon with Ernest Hemingway. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Two Generations of Dementia] Reference
It's that awareness of the ludicrous that gives your boat buoyancy in any of life's stormy crossings. From Wordnik.com. [Class 101: The Lessons Of War] Reference
There's one catch: their BCs -- that's buoyancy compensators for you landlubbers -- won't let them sink. From Wordnik.com. [Kids Take The Plunge] Reference
In other words, the economic bulls were touting their buoyancy from a mythical place called kookoo-land. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Dorfman: Wait Till 2012, Or maybe 2013] Reference
I drop a fifty gallon drum in the ocean at the right spot with just enough buoyancy to float sub-surface. From Wordnik.com. [Gyre and Gimble] Reference
In the midst of the austere and thoughtful life he led, Andras preserved, nevertheless, a sort of youthful buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The sanguine buoyancy and plucky hopefulness indispensable to true statesmanship did not animate them to any extent. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
Clouds, feathers, and thistledown are kept in the air more by the action of winds and small air currents than by buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
As the fronts of the branch glaciers are pushed out into the water their ends are broken off by the buoyancy of the water. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Enclosed within this structure are a number of gas chambers or bags filled with hydrogen, which provide the necessary buoyancy. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
The reverses affected the buoyancy of his troops, disease decimated their ranks, and desertions further depleted their numbers. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference
If Andy Murray really is favourite for the US Open – a peculiarly British perspective – he is keeping his buoyancy in check. From Wordnik.com. [Andy Murray believes Roger Federer has 'lost a little bit' of his aura] Reference
She was paddling a red Valley Avocet plastic sea kayak and was wearing a dull red buoyancy aid on top of a black and grey drysuit. From Wordnik.com. [Search for missing kayaker continues off Anglesey coast] Reference
There's no spontaneity in his college kids -- he doesn't give his actors much breathing space -- and no buoyancy in the filmmaking. From Wordnik.com. [Boyz N The Quad] Reference
Iyer's trio doesn't worry about swinging all the time, although the buoyancy of swing inflects their rhythms as much as hip-hop does. From Wordnik.com. [Losing Jazz's Preconceptions With 'Historicity'] Reference
The group said it expects the deficit to fall faster than planned, as tax receipts have shown a surprising buoyancy in recent months. From Wordnik.com. [U.K. Growth Set to Slow, Business Group Cautions] Reference
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