flotation的意思|flotation的解释-里氏词典

flotation [fləu'teiʃən]

[化] 浮; 浮游选矿

[医] 浮集(法), 浮选(法)

An air-filled sac or structure that aids in the flotation of an aquatic organism.
气囊水生动植物器官中用来帮助飘浮用的充满气体的囊或结构
The function and harm of foam in flotation processes are discussed.
详细论述了泡沫在浮选中的作用与危害、响泡沫稳定的因素、沫的衰变机理以及消泡和消泡技术。
Kerosene and butyl xanthate were used as collectors in bulk flotation.
混合浮选采用煤油加丁基黄药作为捕收剂。

flotation

[ noun ]

the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)

<noun.phenomenon>

financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares

<noun.act>

Flotation \Flo*ta"tion\, n. [Cf. F. flottation a floating,
flottaison water line, fr. flotter to float. See {Flotilla}.]
1. The act, process, or state of floating.

2. The science of floating bodies.

3. (Com. & Finance) Act of financing, or floating, a
commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the
like.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

{Center of flotation}. (Shipbuilding)
(a) The center of any given plane of flotation.
(b) More commonly, the middle of the length of the load
water line. --Rankine.

{Plane of flotation}, or {Line of flotation}, the plane or
line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a
body floating in it. See {Bearing}, n., 9
(c) .

{Surface of flotation} (Shipbuilding), the imaginary surface
which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel
rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.

If these proceeds were spread over five years, the PSBR would be cut by Pounds 18bn initially (Pounds 15bn from the flotation, plus Pounds 3bn saving on road expenditure), and by more as the savings on debt interest built up.
The government already has announced the capital structure of British Steel on flotation.
The new structures also cut commissions involved in issues. In the old days a flotation would usually mean a public offer for sale, perhaps with the price set by tender, but often with a fixed price pitched to ensure the issue's success.
The coincidence of the election aside, it seems the market is nervous about the Pounds 465m flotation of Waste Management International.
It will have to wait until flotation in four years' time to realise much of that gain. As for Europe, Forte is positioning itself to become a leading player in motorway services but its hotel strategy is less convincing.
The hitch is if Graseby is forced to delay flotation of its US businesses because the environmental sector remains in the doldrums - it has underperformed by 20 per cent in the past six months.
The sale of its remaining 75 per cent interest in Qantas is the biggest single item. The shares are likely to be sold through a stock market flotation.
However, in contrast to the planned flotation of Fininvest's film interests, which had been slated for the New York Stock Exchange, the SBE listing would only involve Milan. VNU to sell printing division, Page 20 NEW HIGHS (129). BRITISH FUNDS (3) Treas.
Pretax profit before loan provisions advanced 22% to #1.15 billion, reflecting interest proceeds from its 1989 share flotation, which raised #975 million in fresh capital.
But Finance Minister Edouard Balladur said yesterday he would wait "a few days or a few weeks" for the market to "find its bearings" before beginning the flotation.
Shares in Court Cavendish, the UK nursing home operator, ended the first day of trading at 207p compared with an issue price of 225p. The company's flotation is the first in a recent spate of nursing home listings to disappoint the market.
It will use the flotation to cut gearing to 50 per cent and fund expansion. Impact day, when the full prospectus is issued, will be June 17 and dealing begin on June 30.
It is believed the flotation could double the value of shares held by some 96 per cent of the company's 500 employees. Taunton is expected to sell just under 50 per cent of its shares.
Since Exco increased earnings by more than half last year, the timing for a flotation looks auspicious. Investors will have to decide whether the company is being offered at a cyclical profits peak or near the start of a prolonged recovery.
The 350 managers who had each invested between Pounds 200 and Pounds 80,000 would share up to 26.25 per cent of the group's equity if the flotation target was met. But by late spring of 1989 sales growth was slowing, profit margins slipping.
Mr Pat Carter, chief executive of Westminster Health Care, a large nursing home operator which is planning a flotation, said that the NHS had been closing expensive long-stay hospital wards.
This compares with the Pounds 75m value attached to the business in June 1992, when 60 per cent was sold to institutions and senior staff after flotation plans were scrapped.
Ulster's power industry is to be sold next year. For months, the biggest doubt about the flotation concerned the possibility that the government might call a general election before it could be completed in mid June.
Persona distributes products from companies including 3Com, Mountain Networks and SynOptics directly to resellers. Sponsor to the flotation is Beeson Gregory.
The interim dividend is 1p - in line with the flotation forecast.
When, last month, Sainsbury's decided to stop buying the company's pizza crust for its delicatessens, the shares tumbled. Issuing a profits warning shortly after flotation is just not done and offenders get treated very harshly by the market.
In 1989, the state sold off 26.5 per cent of Repsol, to raise Dollars 1.3bn in the country's largest flotation.
He helped create PowerGen's capital structure and orchestrate its flotation.
Exco looks set for its second successful flotation.
Walking away from a partial flotation of the US business last month was curious enough - although the Dollars 18 a share offered by institutional investors was arguably a little mean.
A strategic disposal was keenly anticipated by the markets. The subsequent transformation owed much to the change in Sweden's economic fortunes following the 25 per cent devaluation of the Swedish krona after its flotation in November 1992.
The issue is intended to raise nearly Dollars 300m and would value the company at over Dollars 2.5bn. The company has been dogged by poor publicity since announcing its flotation in July.
Industry observers expect sufficient demand for the 60 per cent of the shares alloted to be sold to individual investors. It is after Renault, however, and the FFr8bn or so its flotation will bring the state that the challenges become more complex.
But in practice the flotation could prove the first serious challenge for the architects of the government's privatisation drive. UAP is in good shape.
But Mr Wood sometimes talks as if he does not envisage being part of the bank indefinitely. A flotation of Direct Line might value it at up to Pounds 1bn, so Mr Wood could have no further need of the bank's capital at some point.

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