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) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

A floating mat (German: Schwingrasen) is a layer of mosses and other, especially stoloniferous, plants that grows out from the shore across the surface...

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

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...

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

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

The Floating Lives (Vietnamese: Cánh đồng bất tận, lit. 'Endless fields') is a 2010 Vietnamese film based on a short story of the same name by Nguyen Ngoc...

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...

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

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

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...

Floating bridge may refer to: Pontoon bridge Submerged floating tunnel Vlotbrug, a design of retractable pontoon bridge used in the Dutch province of...

Beer floating (Finnish: Kaljakellunta) is an open and unofficial Finnish summer event. In the event, the participants float on the Kerava River or on the...

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...

The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, carries Washington State Route...

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

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

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

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

Floating armouries are vessels used to store military grade weapons. Being in possession of military-grade weapons in most jurisdictions is highly controlled...

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

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