Float

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Float or floating may refer to the following:

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• Float (fishing), a bite indicator used in angling
• Float, a Cascading Style Sheets attribute.
• Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform, animal- or man-drawn or motorized, used in a festive parade
• Float (money supply), in economics, makes up the smallest part of the money supply
• Float (project management), project time management device
• Float (finance); the free float of a public company is an estimate of proportion of shares
• Float (breakdance move), a balance-intensive breakdance move
• Float (Aesop Rock album), a 2000 album by rapper Aesop Rock
• Float (Flogging Molly album), a 2008 album by Irish punk band Flogging Molly
• Floating window is also used to describe a window in a graphical user interface where the window always stays on top of others even when inactive
• "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 served together in one container
• Planemaker's Float, a rasp-like woodworking tool having a series of sharp parallel cutting teeth.
• Pontoon (boat), an air-filled vessel such as a boat or ship floats on water, sometimes known as a float
• IEEE 754, standard for representing floating point numbers in computer science, commonly known as float

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• Buoyancy
• Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states
• Dampening, the guitar technique of sustaining a chord rather than scratching, also known as "floating"
• 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 (dance), 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
• Floating (album), the third album by the German progressive rock band Eloy
• Isolation tank use is often referred to as "floating".