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buoyancy

noun
/ˈbɔɪ.ən.si/UK

Etymology

From buoyant + -cy or buoy + -ancy.

  1. derived from *gʷṓws✻ — “cow”
  2. derived from βόεος
  3. derived from boia — “a (leather) collar, band, fetter”
  4. derived from buie — “fetter, chain”
  5. derived from boeye — “shackle, fetter”
  6. inherited from *baukną✻
  7. derived from *baukn✻ — “beacon”
  8. derived from boue — “piece of wood or cork that floats above an anchor to indicate where it is anchored”
  9. derived from boeye — “float, buoy”
  10. inherited from boy
  11. suffixed as buoyant — “buoy + ant”
  12. suffixed as buoyancy — “buoyant + cy”

Definitions

  1. The upward force on a body immersed or partly immersed in a fluid.

  2. The ability of an object to stay afloat in a fluid.

  3. Resilience or cheerfulness.

    • With how much lighter a step, with how much brighter an eye, did Francesca wander through the forest, even in the last desolation of autumn, than she did in all the bloom and buoyancy of spring!

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Derived

buoyancy aid, buoyancy tank, center of buoyancy, centre of buoyancy, overbuoyancy, reserve buoyancy, unbuoyancy

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at buoyancy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01buoyancy02resilience03natural04inhabitant05resident06bird07wings

A definitional loop anchored at buoyancy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at buoyancy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA