Float

Float or floating may refer to:

Public float, the free float of a public company is an estimate of number of shares of a stock held in public hands
Fishing float, a bite indicator used in angling
Fishing net float, small floats attached along one side of the net so that it hangs vertically in the water
Glass float, a type of large float used to keep fishing nets or droplines afloat
Float (liquid level), a fluid-level indicator used in process engineering and plumbing
Float (money supply), duplicate money present in the banking system during an electronic transaction
Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform, animal- or man-drawn or motorized, used in a festive parade
Float (project management), project time management device
Float (nautical), the air filled structures on a pontoon boat or floatplane
Float (horse-drawn), a form of two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a low loadbed.
Float, also known as ice cream soda
Float or horse float, also known as horse trailer
Float, a Cascading Style Sheets attribute
Float, a single precision binary floating-point computer numbering format
Concrete float, a finishing tool for smoothing wet concrete surfaces
Float, a rasp-like tool having a series of sharp cutting teeth

Float, a term used in paleontology to describe bits of fossil bone with no scientific value

Float (Aesop Rock album), a 2000 album by rapper Aesop Rock
Float (breakdance move), a balance-intensive breakdance move
Float (Flogging Molly album), a 2008 album by Irish American Celtic punk band Flogging Molly
"Float", a song from the album The Music by the band of the same name
"Float", is also a song by the British rock band Bush from their 2001 album Golden State

Floating

Floating point, a representation in computing of rational numbers, most commonly associated with the IEEE 754 standard
Floating currency, a market-valued currency
Floating, being electrically disconnected from an electronic power source, for example a floating-gate transistor; non-connected to any circuit, for example floating potential acquired by a floating electrode in electrochemistry (e.g., see Langmuir probe#Floating_potential)
Floating, a type of dental work performed on horse teeth
Float voltage, an external electric potential required to keep a battery fully charged
Floating, making use of an isolation tank
Floating, the guitar technique of sustaining a chord rather than scratching, also called damping
Floating (dance), a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques closely related to popping
Floating (play), by Hugh Hughes
Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states
Subspace (BDSM), the psychological state of the submissive partner in a BDSM scene