Why is the lowering of weight of a body when immersed in water called apparent decrease in weight?

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When an object is immersed wholly or partly in a fluid, it suffers an apparent loss in its weight.
This apparent loss in weight of the object is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by it.

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