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scratched Floating (play), by Hugh Hughes Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states Floating voltage, and floating ground, a voltage
Floating
Computer approximation for real numbers
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a significand (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits
Floating-point_arithmetic
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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
Floating_city
Market where goods are sold from boats
A floating market is a market where goods are sold from boats. Originating in times and places where water transport played an important role in daily
Floating_market
Part of a suit jacket or coat
In tailoring, a floating canvas is a fabric panel sewn inside the front of a suit jacket or coat. The floating canvas adds structure to the front panel
Floating_canvas
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Floating bridge may refer to: Pontoon bridge Submerged floating tunnel Vlotbrug, a design of retractable pontoon bridge used in the Dutch province of
Floating_bridge
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Floating World may refer to: Ukiyo ("floating, fleeting, or transient world"), the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of Edo-period
Floating_World
Currency value as determined by foreign market events
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
Floating_exchange_rate
Group of residents outside an official census count
The floating population refers to people who reside within a given population for a specific duration and for various reasons, but are not generally considered
Floating_population
American band
Floating Action is a band from Black Mountain, North Carolina, founded by Seth Kauffman. Kauffman is the band's sole lyricist, songwriter, recorder and
Floating_Action
64-bit computer number format
Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;
Double-precision floating-point format
Double-precision_floating-point_format
Signifier without a definite referent
In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers are signifiers, such as words or images, that can be interpreted in different ways and so do not
Floating_signifier
British musician and producer
Samuel Thomas Shepherd (born 1986), known professionally as Floating Points, is a British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician. He is the founder
Floating_Points
Part of a computer system
A floating-point unit (FPU), numeric processing unit (NPU), colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out
Floating-point_unit
IEEE standard for floating-point arithmetic
The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the
IEEE_754
Index of articles associated with the same name
Hexadecimal floating point may refer to: IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal_floating_point
Island (natural or artificial) made of floating plants, mud, and peat
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_island
Type of heavily armed watercraft
A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship
Floating_battery
Root-finding algorithm
multiplicative inverse) of the square root of a 32-bit floating-point number x {\displaystyle x} in IEEE 754 floating-point format. The algorithm is best known for
Fast_inverse_square_root
Stage production created by Hugh Hughes
Floating is a 2005 stage production created and performed by "emerging Welsh performance artist" Hugh Hughes (aka Shôn Dale-Jones) in collaboration with
Floating_(play)
Novel by John Barth
The Floating Opera is a novel by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. Barth's first published work, the
The_Floating_Opera
Vessel used by offshore oil and gas industry
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 production storage and offloading
Floating_production_storage_and_offloading
Solar panels mounted on a structure that floats
Floating solar or floating photovoltaics (FPV), sometimes called floatovoltaics, are solar panels mounted on a structure that floats. The structures that
Floating_solar
Dessert of soft meringue on crème anglaise
A floating island or île flottante (French: [il flɔtɑ̃t]) is a dessert consisting of soft meringue floating on crème anglaise (a liquid vanilla custard)
Floating_island_(dessert)
Economic policy
Fear of floating is the hesitancy of a country to follow a floating exchange rate regime, rather than a fixed exchange rate. This is more relevant in
Fear_of_floating
Measure of computer performance
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance or compute in computing, useful in fields of scientific
Floating point operations per second
Floating_point_operations_per_second
Thought experiment by Ibn Sina
The floating man, flying man, or man suspended in air argument is a thought experiment by the Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (Avicenna) that argues for the
Floating_man
Infrastructure concept
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
Floating_airport
Floating-point number format used in computer processors
The bfloat16 (brain floating point) floating-point format is a computer number format occupying 16 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic
Bfloat16 floating-point format
Bfloat16_floating-point_format
1959 Japanese film by Yasujirō Ozu
Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II, Machiko
Floating_Weeds
32-bit computer number format
Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32, float32, or float) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory;
Single-precision floating-point format
Single-precision_floating-point_format
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating rate may refer to: Floating interest rate Floating rate note Floating exchange rate This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the
Floating_rate
Type of MOSFET where the gate is electrically isolated
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
Floating-gate_MOSFET
Floor not attached to the subfloor
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_floor
Fictional storytelling device
A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in long-running comics and animation, in which characters
Floating_timeline
Basin drained to allow work on a vessel
watercraft. There are several basic types of dry docks: Graving or basin docks Floating dry docks Marine railways Vertical lifts Marine travel lifts In fifth-century
Dry_dock
Layer of plants that grow across the surface of a lake or pond
A floating mat (German: Schwingrasen) is a layer of mosses and other, especially stoloniferous, plants that grows out from the shore across the surface
Floating_mat
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A floating casino is a casino on board a ship, often permanently moored. This may be to advantage of less restrictive laws restricting gambling either
Floating_casino
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A floating dock may refer to a number of constructions found in ports and harbours Floating dock (impounded), a development of the half tide dock, where
Floating_dock
Amphibious city model
The Floating ecopolis, otherwise known as the Lilypad, is a model designed by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut for future climatic refugees. He proposed
Floating_ecopolis
Floating bridge carrying a freeway in Seattle, Washington
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridge
Security interest over a fund of changing assets of a legal entity
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
Floating_charge
Agricultural practice in Bangladesh
The floating gardening, locally known as baira or dhap, is a traditional agricultural practice originating from Bangladesh. The practice involves layering
Floating_gardening
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Floating ice may refer to: Drift ice, floating sea ice Floating Ice, a 2012 album by Michael Bisio Iceberg This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Floating_ice
2013 studio album by Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin is the fourteenth studio album by the American garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, released on April 16, 2013, on Castle Face Records. The album
Floating_Coffin
Genre of Japanese art
fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as 'picture[s] of the floating world'. In 1603, the city of Edo (Tokyo) became the seat of the ruling
Ukiyo-e
Index of plants with the same common name
Floating bladderwort may be a common name for: Utricularia gibba, floating bladderwort Utricularia inflata, large floating bladderwort Utricularia radiata
Floating_bladderwort
Electrical ground not connected to Earth
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_ground
Style of furniture shelf
A floating shelf is a form of shelf with its wall fixings hidden within the shelf board, with no visible supporting brackets. It is believed that the contemporary
Floating_shelf
Floating building in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Floating Farm is a floating dairy farm, described by its founders as the world's first, located in the harbour of Rotterdam. The farm produces fresh dairy
Floating_Farm
16-bit computer number format
Half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers)
Half-precision floating-point format
Half-precision_floating-point_format
Market in Ayutthaya province, Thailand
Ayothaya Floating Market (Thai: ตลาดน้ำอโยธยา, pronounced [tā.làːt náːm ʔā.jōː.tʰā.jāː]) is a cultural and shopping destination in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
Ayothaya_Floating_Market
Decimal representation of real numbers in computing
Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal
Decimal_floating_point
pontoon bridges are semi-permanent floating bridges located throughout the world. Four of the five longest floating bridges in the world are located in
List_of_pontoon_bridges
1989 studio album by Julee Cruise
Floating into the Night is the debut studio album by American singer Julee Cruise. It was released on September 12, 1989, by Warner Bros. Records, and
Floating_into_the_Night
1997 American film
Floating is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by William Roth and starring Norman Reedus. Van is a man who struggles set against a turbulent
Floating_(film)
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating note may refer to: Message in a bottle Adjustable-rate mortgage Drifter (floating device) Floater (disambiguation) Floating rate (disambiguation)
Floating_note
1996 Australian film
Floating Life is a 1996 Australian drama film directed by Clara Law about a Hong Kong family who move to Australia. The film was selected as the Australian
Floating_Life
Mobile educational boats in flood-prone Bangladesh
Floating Schools in Bangladesh are mobile educational boats designed to provide access to schooling in flood-prone, riverine and haor regions of the country
Floating_Schools
1825 instrument for aligning telescopes
A Floating collimator was an early collimator widely used in astronomical observations. It was invented by the English physicist and astronomer Captain
Floating_collimator
Vessels for weapon storage
Floating armouries are vessels used to store military grade weapons. Being in possession of military-grade weapons in most jurisdictions is highly controlled
Floating_armoury
3D rendering technique
Floating origin is a 3D rendering technique used primarily in video game graphics, where the virtual camera is used as a coordinate origin instead of it
Floating_origin
Building created to float on water
A floating building is a building unit with a flotation system at its base, allowing it to float on water. It is common to define such a building as being
Floating_building
Offshore ocean structure with oil drilling and related facilities
combined drilling and production facilities, either bottom-founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), including
Oil_platform
Strategies to make sure approximate calculations stay close to accurate
Floating-point error mitigation is the minimization of errors caused by the fact that real numbers cannot, in general, be accurately represented in a fixed
Floating-point error mitigation
Floating-point_error_mitigation
2008 studio album by John McLaughlin
Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix. The album reached number fourteen on Billboard's
Floating_Point
Data types supported by the C programming language
64-bit IEEE 754 binary floating-point formats are used for float and double respectively. The C99 standard includes new real floating-point types float_t
C_data_types
Method in computer arithmetic
Block floating point (BFP) is a method used to provide an arithmetic approaching floating point while using a fixed-point processor. BFP assigns a group
Block_floating_point
Type of wind turbine
Floating offshore wind involves one or more offshore wind turbines mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water
Floating_offshore_wind
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Floating lantern may refer to: Sky lantern, a small hot air balloon made of paper that floats in the air Water lantern, a type of lamp that floats on the
Floating_lantern
Soviet model of mobile pontoon bridge
The PMP Floating Bridge (Russian: Понтонно-мостовой парк, ПМП "pontoon / bridge park") is a type of mobile pontoon bridge designed by the Soviet Union
PMP_Floating_Bridge
Floating Figure is a 1927 sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. Gaston Lachaise’s Floating Figure is a modernist allegorical statue of the artist’s muse as an
Floating_Figure
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating University may refer to: Flying University, Uniwersytet Latający, sometimes also translated "Floating University" Oceanic II (ship), an ocean
Floating_University
Artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo, Italy
The Floating Piers was a temporary, site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, consisting of 70,000 square meters of yellow fabric, carried
The_Floating_Piers
Floating reedbeds are artificial or natural systems consisting of buoyancy and reeds. Plants including rice and wheat can be cultivated on floating reedbeds
Floating_reedbeds
Non-profit organization
The Floating Hospital is a non-profit organization that provides healthcare services to medically underserved communities in New York City, both from its
Floating_Hospital
2012 Chinese-Hong Kong film by Yim Ho
Floating City (Chinese: 浮城; Jyutping: fau4 seng4) is a 2012 drama film directed by Yim Ho. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was released on
Floating_City
128-bit computer number format
In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision
Quadruple-precision floating-point format
Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format
Former rock band based in Sydney, Australia
Floating Me (sometimes stylised as FLOATINGME) were a progressive rock group from Sydney, Australia, featuring Lucius Borich from Cog, Jon Stockman of
Floating_Me
Type of United States Navy drydocks
A floating drydock is a type of ship repair facility that has been used since at least the early 19th century. It was adopted for widespread use by the
Auxiliary_floating_drydock
Floating Village in Southern District, Hong Kong
The Aberdeen Floating Village is a fishing port situated in the Aberdeen area of the Southern District of Hong Kong. The port accommodates approximately
Aberdeen_floating_village
Summer event in Finland
Beer floating (Finnish: Kaljakellunta) is an open and unofficial Finnish summer event. In the event, the participants float on the Kerava River or Vantaa
Beer_floating
Quickly accessible working storage available as part of a digital processor
unified so that the GPRs can store floating-point numbers as well. Floating-point registers (FPRs) store floating-point numbers in many architectures
Processor_register
Species of aquatic plant
(commonly known as floating fern, floating watermoss, floating moss, or commercially, water butterfly wings) is an annual floating aquatic fern, which
Salvinia_natans
Medical condition
Floating–Harbor syndrome, also known as Pelletier–Leisti syndrome, is a rare disease with fewer than 50 cases described in the literature. It is usually
Floating–Harbor_syndrome
Treatise on hydrostatics by Archimedes
On Floating Bodies (Greek: Περὶ τῶν ἐπιπλεόντων σωμάτων) is a work, originally in two books, by Archimedes, one of the most important mathematicians, physicists
On_Floating_Bodies
2019 non-fiction book by Bathsheba Demuth
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait is a 2019 book by Brown University historian Bathsheba Demuth, published by W. W. Norton
Floating_Coast
Soviet ternary computer
interpreters—IP-2 (floating-point, 8 decimal digits), IP-3 (floating-point, 6 decimal digits), IP-4 (complex numbers, 8 decimal digits), IP-5 (floating-point, 12
Setun
2011 novel by Ronald Malfi
Floating Staircase is a ghost story/mystery novel by American writer Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2011 by Medallion Press, with a limited edition
Floating_Staircase
Boat used as a home
community on the southern side of Hong Kong Island, known as Aberdeen Floating Village. There was also one such community in the Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter
Houseboat
Stairs that appear to float
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
Cantilevered_stairs
Planet not gravitationally bound to a star
A rogue planet, also termed a free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which
Rogue_planet
2015 Chinese film
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Floating Melon. Floating Melon (Original Chinese: 浮果; pinyin: Fu Guo; lit. 'floating fruit'; Spanish title Sandía amarga)
Floating_Melon
Market in Thailand
Amphawa Floating Market (Thai: ตลาดน้ำอัมพวา, RTGS: Talat Nam Amphawa, pronounced [tā.làːt náːm ʔām.pʰā.wāː]) is a floating market and a tourist attraction
Amphawa_Floating_Market
Part of a number in scientific notation
(left) part of a number in scientific notation or related concepts in floating-point representation, consisting of its significant digits. For negative
Significand
Species of liverwort
Riccia fluitans, the floating crystalwort, is an aquatic floating plant of the liverwort genus Riccia which is popular among aquarists as a retreat for
Riccia_fluitans
Species of amphibian
lima, the green puddle frog, rough-skinned floating frog, pearly skin puddle frog, or pointed-tongued floating frog, is a species of frog in the family
Occidozyga_lima
Plant that has adapted to living in an aquatic environment
and for floating at the water surface. The most common adaptation is the presence of lightweight internal packing cells, aerenchyma, but floating leaves
Aquatic_plant
1955 Japanese drama film
Floating Clouds (Japanese: 浮雲, Hepburn: Ukigumo) is a 1955 Japanese drama film directed by Mikio Naruse and based on the novel Ukigumo by Fumiko Hayashi
Floating_Clouds
Comic book retailer in Portland, Oregon
Floating World Comics is a comic book retailer and publisher located in Portland, Oregon, United States. Owned by Jason Leivian, the company specializes
Floating_World_Comics
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a.
Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
n.
An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like.
n.
Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
v. t.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
n.
Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
n.
To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
n.
In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
a.
Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
a.
Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
a.
Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
v. i.
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
adv.
In a floating manner.
n.
A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
a.
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
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