Definitions for buoyancy

buoyancy buoy·an·cy

Spelling: [boi-uh n-see, boo-yuh n-see]
IPA: /ˈbɔɪ ən si, ˈbu yən si/

Buoyancy is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in buoyancy (abcnouyy).

Definitions for buoyancy

noun

  1. the power to float or rise in a fluid; relative lightness.
  2. the power of supporting a body so that it floats; upward pressure exerted by the fluid in which a body is immersed.
  3. lightness or resilience of spirit; cheerfulness.

Origin of buoyancy

First recorded in 1705-15; buoy(ant) + -ancy

Examples for buoyancy

buoyancy protects the most vulnerable parts of our skeleton.

It may have been the gradient of the hills, but somehow her gait had lost something of its buoyancy.

But it was the light in their eyes, their grinning faces, the buoyancy of their gait that held him.

He mingled a certain frowning impatience with the buoyancy of his smile.

They were young still, and the buoyancy of the country they had adopted was in both of them.

The buoyancy of their irresponsible natures was reasserting itself.

And despite the good scholarship the authors have managed to retain the buoyancy and upbeat air attendant on most comics.

Sudden peace, buoyancy, contentment, or alternatively sorrow or physical pain.

Blame it, he says, on buoyancy, which “reduces the energy expenditure associated with swimming.”

You are a Cheever, my father would tell his children with a buoyancy in his voice which suggested both seriousness and mockery.

Word Value for buoyancy
Scrable

18

Words with friends

20

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