Look up floating in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Floating may refer to: a type of dental work performed on horse teeth use of an isolation tank the...

In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) in some base (or radix) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using a fixed-point value (called...

A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred...

Floating rate may refer to: Floating interest rate Floating rate note Floating exchange rate This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the...

Floating city may refer to: Aberdeen floating village, Hong Kong Floating cities and islands in fiction, the use of artificial floating cities as a speculative...

Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;...

Setun (Russian: Сетунь) was a computer developed in 1958 at Moscow State University. It was built under the leadership of Sergei Sobolev and Nikolay Brusentsov...

The floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS), also known as a floating-gate MOS transistor or floating-gate transistor, is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect...

In macroeconomics and economic policy, a floating exchange rate (also known as a fluctuating or flexible exchange rate) is a type of exchange rate regime...

The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the...

A floating ground is a reference point for electrical potential in a circuit which is galvanically isolated from actual earth ground. Most electrical circuits...

A floating-point unit (FPU), numeric processing unit (NPU), colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out...

Samuel Shepherd (born 1986), known professionally as Floating Points, is a British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician. He is the founder of Pluto...

Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance in computing, useful in fields of scientific computations...

Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it...

Floating island of garbage or island of floating trash, could refer to: Garbage patch, a collection of floating detritus formed from trash coming together...

A floating island or île flottante (French: [il flɔtɑ̃t]) is a dessert consisting of meringue floating on crème anglaise (a vanilla custard). The meringue...

Floating licensing, also known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for...

Floating Power was a technology developed in the 1920s by the United States automobile firm Chrysler, credited mostly to the engineering of Owen Ray Skelton...

or floating stairs, are a type of staircase. A cantilever is a beam, which is anchored at only one end. Thus cantilevered stairs have a "floating" appearance...

In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers (also referred to as empty signifiers, although these terms have been made distinct) are signifiers...

A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing...

In finance, a floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company or other legal person. Unlike a fixed charge, which is...

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides, known commonly as floating pennywort, or floating marshpennywort, is an aquatic plant in the family Apiaceae. It is native...

A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure (VLFS) located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type...

computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern...

A floating floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is...

Floating solar or floating photovoltaics (FPV), sometimes called floatovoltaics, are solar panels mounted on a structure that floats on a body of water...

Riccia fluitans, the floating crystalwort, is an aquatic floating plant of the liverwort genus Riccia which is popular among aquarists as a retreat for...

Lake Washington Floating Bridge may refer to the following crossings of Lake Washington between Seattle and its eastern suburbs: Lacey V. Murrow Memorial...