floating natation | the act of someone who floats on the water |
floating dock floating dry dock | dry dock that can be submerged under a vessel and then raised |
floating mine marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
pontoon bridge bateau bridge floating bridge | a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons |
floater floating policy | an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location |
floating-point notation floating-point representation system | a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix, in the floating-point representation system, . is represented as .- where - is the exponent |
swing voter floating voter | a voter who has no allegiance to any political party and whose unpredictable decisions can swing the outcome of an election one way or the other |
floating-moss Salvinia rotundifolia Salvinia auriculata | free-floating aquatic ferns |
mosquito fern floating fern Carolina pond fern Azolla caroliniana | small free-floating aquatic fern from the eastern United States to tropical America, naturalized in western and southern Europe |
floating fern water sprite Ceratopteris pteridioides | aquatic fern of tropical America often used in aquariums |
floating fern Ceratopteris thalictroides | pantropical aquatic fern |
floating-point operation flop | an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers, this computer can perform a million flops per second |
floating-point number | a number represented in floating-point notation |
megaflop MFLOP million floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
teraflop trillion floating point operations per second | (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system |
floating | borne up by or suspended in a liquid, the ship is still floating, floating logs, floating seaweed |
floating(a) | not definitely committed to a party or policy, floating voters |
floating(a) | (of a part of the body) not firmly connected, movable or out of normal position, floating ribs are not connected with the sternum, a floating kidney |
floating | inclined to move or be moved about, a floating crap game |
aimless drifting floating vagabond vagrant | continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another, a drifting double-dealer, the floating population, vagrant hippies of the sixties |