Float

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Float or floating may refer to:

Float

• Float (finance), the free float of a public company is an estimate of proportion of shares
• Float (fishing), a bite indicator used in angling
• 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
• Floats (nautical), the air filled structures on a pontoon boat
• 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.
• Float, a rasp-like tool having a series of sharp cutting teeth

• Planemaker's float
• Equine dental float, a short float with a long handle, used on horse teeth

Music

• 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, a 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
• Floating, the psychological state of the submissive partner in a BDSM scene

Music

• Floating (album), the third album by the German progressive rock band Eloy
• Floating (Smog EP), 1991
• Floating (The Moody Blues song)
• Floating (Megan Rochell song)
• Floating (Jape song)

See also

• Flotation (disambiguation)
• Buoyancy, the upward force that keeps things afloat
• Milk float, a small battery electric vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk
• Valve float, a condition of an internal combustion engine

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