Pronunciation spelling of floating.

A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).

That floats or float. / Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift. / (linguistics, of a tone) that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.

present participle of float

The motion of something that floats. / (in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid. / The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.

Alternative form of floating point.

(computing) Any simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.

(mathematics) Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 × 10¹.

An aggregation of driftwood, roots, etc., capable of bearing soil, floated out from a river delta or similar.

(informal, vulgar) I have a strong need to urinate.