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Phrases 68
- floating pointOf 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.
- floating-point numberA number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).
- floating rateA rate, usually interest or exchange values, that moves up and down with the rest of the market or along with an index.
- floating aroundpresent participle and gerund of float around
- floating islandAn aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a river delta or similar.
- floating marketA market where goods are sold from boats, chiefly found in Southeast and South Asia.
- floating docka dry dock which can float, and is submersible when a ship is entering or leaving it.
- floating-point numbersplural of floating-point number: A number written in the form a × bᶜ, e.g. 3.75 × 10³ (a being the mantissa, b, the base and c, the exponent).
- floating point operationAny simple operation, such as addition, multiplication or division, performed on floating point numbers using a single operation.
- floating groundA reference point for electric potential in a circuit which is not connected to the actual earth ground.
- floating bus stopA bus stop separated from the sidewalk by a cycle lane.
- floating-point unitA microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all.
- floating ribEither of the two lowermost (the eleventh and twelfth) pairs of ribs, which are attached only to the vertebrae and not to the sternum or its cartilage.
- floating bridgeA bridge of rafts or beams of timber lying on the surface of the water.
- floating gardenSynonym of chinampa: A floating island in a shallow lake bed, upon which crops were grown.
- floating heartAn aquatic flowering plant of the genus Nymphoides, having heart-shaped leaves that float on the water.
- floating islandsplural of floating island: An aggregation of driftwood and roots, or vegetation, capable of bearing soil, which floats on the surface of (bog or lake) water or is floated out from a river delta or similar.
- floating panelA construction technique where the panel is set into grooves in the frame, not glued or nailed solid, allowing it to expand and contract with humidity changes.
- floating toneA morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.
- floating votersplural of floating voter: a person who does not always vote for the same political party, but usually decides on the basis of policies.
- free-floatingFloating in water without attachment to anything and with no means of propulsion.
- floating car dataA method to determine the traffic speed on a road network by monitoring the geolocations of drivers' mobile phones.
- floating bridgesplural of floating bridge: A bridge of rafts or beams of timber lying on the surface of the water.
- floating kidneynephroptosis
- floating wind turbineAn offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where fixed-foundation turbines are not feasible.
Compound words 8
- flixelAn image, that combines a photo, and a video element that is looped to give the illusion of movement.
- floatinglyIn a floating manner; so as to float or to appear to float.
- unfloatingNot floating.
- nonfloatingNot floating (in any sense)
- floatingheartAlternative form of floating heart (“aquatic flowering plant”) (Nymphoides spp.)
- floatingheartsplural of floatingheart: Alternative form of floating heart (“aquatic flowering plant”) (Nymphoides spp.)
- outfloatingpresent participle and gerund of outfloat
- overfloatingpresent participle and gerund of overfloat