Illustration: At a public swimming pool's shallow teaching area, a child tries to keep a large inflatable ball submerged with both hands. The ball has slipped from one palm and is surging upward through the surface, lifting the child's remaining hand and sending a small crown of water outward.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

浮ふ力りょく

furyoku

buoyancy

Example sentences

  1. 塩水えんすいの方ほうが淡水たんすいよりも浮力ふりょくが大おおきい。

    Salt water is more buoyant than fresh water.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 実物じつぶつもいくつか伝つたわっているが、実際じっさいには履物程度はきものていどの大おおきさの木片もくへんでは浮力ふりょくが足たりず、人間にんげん1人ひとりを浮うかせることは不可能ふかのうである。

    Some original Mizugumo are handed down, but it is impossible for a person to float with them, as the float from the footwear is too small and thus the buoyancy is insufficient.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 浮うき輪わに空気くうきを入いれると、浮力ふりょくが増ます。

    Inflating a swim ring increases its buoyancy.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 浮力

  • 浮floating; floatOnフKunうく・うかれる・うかぶ
  • 力power; strengthOnリョク・リキ・リイKunちから

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