Float

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Float or floating may refer to the following:

Float

• Float, an air-filled vessel such as a boat or ship floats on water; see also Buoyancy
• Pneumatocyst, a gas-filled organ of some seaweeds
• Float (fishing), a bite indicator used in angling
• Float (CSS attribute), a Cascading Style Sheets attribute that specifies an element's alignment relative to the elements it precedes.
• Float, the common name for the IEEE 754 standard for representing floating point numbers in computer science
• Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform, animal- or man-drawn or motorzied, used in a festive parade
• Float (project management), the amount of time that a terminal element in a project network can be delayed by, without causing a delay to: subsequent terminal elements, or project completion date
• Float (money supply), in economics, makes up the smallest part of the money supply
• Float (finance); the free float of a public company is an estimate of proportion of shares that are not held by large owners and that are not stock with sales restrictions
• Float, in insurance, investable policyholder funds
• Float (breakdance move), a balance-intensive breakdance move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands
• Float (album), the first major release of rapper Aesop Rock
• Float, a song by The Music from their 2003 album The Music
• Valve float, part of an internal combustion engine
• Milk float, a small battery electric vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk
• Root beer float, ice cream and root beer mixed together
• FloAts Mobile Agent, an open-source mobile phone management program

Floating

• Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping (back) into altered states
• Floating, the guitar technique of sustaining a chord rather than scratching
• Floating currency, a currency that uses a floating exchange rate as its exchange rate regime
• Floating exchange rate, a type of exchange rate regime wherein a currency's value is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market
• Floating, gliding and sliding, a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques closely related to popping
• Floating point, a datatype in computer science
• Floating, in electronics, being electrically disconnected from a power source, for example, a floating gate transistor has a gate element insulated from its electrodes
• Floating, in computer typesetting environments such as HTML, wikitext, or desktop publishing, describes the alignment of an element to the left or right while text wraps around it