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scratched Floating (play), by Hugh Hughes Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states Floating voltage, and floating ground, a voltage
Floating
Computer approximation for real numbers
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a significand (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits
Floating-point_arithmetic
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Floating city may refer to: Aberdeen floating village, Hong Kong Floating cities and islands in fiction, the use of artificial floating cities as a speculative
Floating_city
Part of a suit jacket or coat
In tailoring, a floating canvas is a fabric panel sewn inside the front of a suit jacket or coat. The floating canvas adds structure to the front panel
Floating_canvas
British musician and producer
Samuel Thomas Shepherd (born 1986), known professionally as Floating Points, is a British electronic music producer, DJ, and musician. He is the founder
Floating_Points
Island (natural or artificial) made of floating plants, mud, and peat
A floating island is a mass of floating aquatic plants, mud, and peat ranging in thickness from several centimeters to a few meters. Sometimes referred
Floating_island
Fictional storytelling device
A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in long-running comics and animation, in which characters
Floating_timeline
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating bridge may refer to: Pontoon bridge Submerged floating tunnel Vlotbrug, a design of retractable pontoon bridge used in the Dutch province of
Floating_bridge
Index of articles associated with the same name
Hexadecimal floating point may refer to: IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal_floating_point
IEEE standard for floating-point arithmetic
The IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) is a technical standard for floating-point arithmetic originally established in 1985 by the
IEEE_754
Signifier without a definite referent
In semiotics and discourse analysis, floating signifiers are signifiers, such as words or images, that can be interpreted in different ways and so do not
Floating_signifier
Currency value as determined by foreign market events
In macroeconomics and economic policy, a floating exchange rate (also known as a fluctuating or flexible exchange rate) is a type of exchange rate regime
Floating_exchange_rate
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Floating World may refer to: Ukiyo ("floating, fleeting, or transient world"), the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of Edo-period
Floating_World
Thought experiment by Ibn Sina
The floating man, flying man, or man suspended in air argument is a thought experiment by the Persian philosopher Ibn Sina (Avicenna) which argues for
Floating_man
Floating building in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Floating Farm is a floating dairy farm, described by its founders as the world's first, located in the harbour of Rotterdam. The farm produces fresh dairy
Floating_Farm
Type of MOSFET where the gate is electrically isolated
The floating-gate MOSFET (FGMOS), also known as a floating-gate MOS transistor or floating-gate transistor, is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect
Floating-gate_MOSFET
Economic policy
Fear of floating is the hesitancy of a country to follow a floating exchange rate regime, rather than a fixed exchange rate. This is more relevant in
Fear_of_floating
Measure of computer performance
Floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance or compute in computing, useful in fields of scientific
Floating point operations per second
Floating_point_operations_per_second
Dessert of soft meringue on crème anglaise
A floating island or île flottante (French: [il flɔtɑ̃t]) is a dessert consisting of soft meringue floating on crème anglaise (a liquid vanilla custard)
Floating_island_(dessert)
Stage production created by Hugh Hughes
Floating is a 2005 stage production created and performed by "emerging Welsh performance artist" Hugh Hughes (aka Shôn Dale-Jones) in collaboration with
Floating_(play)
Solar panels mounted on a structure that floats
Floating solar or floating photovoltaics (FPV), sometimes called floatovoltaics, are solar panels mounted on a structure that floats. The structures that
Floating_solar
Building created to float on water
A floating building is a building unit with a flotation system at its base, to allow it to float on water. It is common to define such a building as being
Floating_building
1959 Japanese film by Yasujirō Ozu
Floating Weeds (Japanese: 浮草, Hepburn: Ukigusa) is a 1959 Japanese drama film directed and co-written by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Nakamura Ganjirō II, Machiko
Floating_Weeds
64-bit computer number format
Double-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP64 or float64) is a floating-point number format, usually occupying 64 bits in computer memory;
Double-precision floating-point format
Double-precision_floating-point_format
Type of heavily armed watercraft
A floating battery is a kind of armed watercraft, often improvised or experimental, which carries heavy armament but has few other qualities as a warship
Floating_battery
Market where goods are sold from boats
A floating market is a market where goods are sold from boats. Originating in times and places where water transport played an important role in daily
Floating_market
Vessel used by offshore oil and gas industry
A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) unit is a floating vessel used by the offshore oil and gas industry for the production and processing
Floating production storage and offloading
Floating_production_storage_and_offloading
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating note may refer to: Message in a bottle Adjustable-rate mortgage Drifter (floating device) Floater (disambiguation) Floating rate (disambiguation)
Floating_note
Amphibious city model
The Floating ecopolis, otherwise known as the Lilypad, is a model designed by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut for future climatic refugees. He proposed
Floating_ecopolis
32-bit computer number format
Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32, float32, or float) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory;
Single-precision floating-point format
Single-precision_floating-point_format
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Floating ice may refer to: Drift ice, floating sea ice Floating Ice, a 2012 album by Michael Bisio Iceberg This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Floating_ice
Root-finding algorithm
multiplicative inverse) of the square root of a 32-bit floating-point number x {\displaystyle x} in IEEE 754 floating-point format. The algorithm is best known for
Fast_inverse_square_root
Type of United States Navy drydocks
An auxiliary floating drydock is a type of US Navy auxiliary floating dry dock. Floating dry docks are able to submerge underwater and to be placed under
Auxiliary_floating_drydock
Genre of Japanese art
fauna; and erotica. The term ukiyo-e (浮世絵) translates as 'picture[s] of the floating world'. In 1603, the city of Edo (Tokyo) became the seat of the ruling
Ukiyo-e
Part of a computer system
A floating-point unit (FPU), numeric processing unit (NPU), colloquially math coprocessor, is a part of a computer system specially designed to carry out
Floating-point_unit
Fearson's floating cigarette is a magical illusion created by Steve Fearson in the early 1990s. The performer displays a cigarette which behaves in almost
Fearson's_floating_cigarette
Floating bridge carrying a freeway in Seattle, Washington
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge, also known as the 520 Bridge and officially the Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge, is a floating bridge that carries
Evergreen Point Floating Bridge
Evergreen_Point_Floating_Bridge
Floating reedbeds are artificial or natural systems consisting of buoyancy and reeds. Plants including rice and wheat can be cultivated on floating reedbeds
Floating_reedbeds
Basin drained to allow work on a vessel
are several basic types of dry docks: (1) Graving or Basin Docks, (2) Floating Dry Docks, (3) Marine Railways, (4) Vertical Lifts, (5) Marine Travel Lifts
Dry_dock
Floating-point number format used in computer processors
The bfloat16 (brain floating point) floating-point format is a computer number format occupying 16 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic
Bfloat16 floating-point format
Bfloat16_floating-point_format
Layer of plants that grow across the surface of a lake or pond
A floating mat (German: Schwingrasen) is a layer of mosses and other, especially stoloniferous, plants that grows out from the shore across the surface
Floating_mat
American band
Floating Action is a band from Black Mountain, North Carolina, founded by Seth Kauffman. Kauffman is the band's sole lyricist, songwriter, recorder and
Floating_Action
2013 studio album by Thee Oh Sees
Floating Coffin is the fourteenth studio album by the American garage rock band Thee Oh Sees, released on April 16, 2013, on Castle Face Records. The album
Floating_Coffin
Infrastructure concept
A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure (VLFS) located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type
Floating_airport
Agricultural practice in Bangladesh
The floating gardening, locally known as baira or dhap, is a traditional agricultural practice originating from Bangladesh. The practice involves layering
Floating_gardening
Strategies to make sure approximate calculations stay close to accurate
Floating-point error mitigation is the minimization of errors caused by the fact that real numbers cannot, in general, be accurately represented in a fixed
Floating-point error mitigation
Floating-point_error_mitigation
Floor not attached to the subfloor
A floating floor is a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the subfloor. The term floating floor refers to the installation method, but is
Floating_floor
Group of residents outside an official census count
The floating population refers to people who reside within a given population for a specific duration and for various reasons, but are not generally considered
Floating_population
Topics referred to by the same term
A floating dock may refer to a number of constructions found in ports and harbours Floating dock (impounded), a development of the half tide dock, where
Floating_dock
Tunnel that floats underwater
A submerged floating tunnel (SFT), also known as submerged floating tube bridge (SFTB), suspended tunnel, or Archimedes bridge, is a proposed design for
Submerged_floating_tunnel
Decimal representation of real numbers in computing
Decimal floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal
Decimal_floating_point
3D rendering technique
Floating origin is a 3D rendering technique used primarily in video game graphics, where the virtual camera is used as a coordinate origin instead of it
Floating_origin
Species of amphibian
The green puddle frog, rough-skinned floating frog, pearly skin puddle frog, or pointed-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga lima) is a species of frog in
Green_puddle_frog
Stairs that appear to float
or floating stairs, are a type of staircase. A cantilever is a beam which is anchored at only one end. Thus cantilevered stairs have a "floating" appearance
Cantilevered_stairs
Security interest over a fund of changing assets of a legal entity
In finance, a floating charge is a security interest over a fund of changing assets of a company or other legal person. Unlike a fixed charge, which is
Floating_charge
Method in computer arithmetic
Block floating point (BFP) is a method used to provide an arithmetic approaching floating point while using a fixed-point processor. BFP assigns a group
Block_floating_point
Market in Ayutthaya province, Thailand
Ayothaya Floating Market (Thai: ตลาดน้ำอโยธยา, pronounced [tā.làːt náːm ʔā.jōː.tʰā.jāː]) is a cultural and shopping destination in Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya
Ayothaya_Floating_Market
Type of wind turbine
A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths where
Floating_wind_turbine
Bonds that have a variable coupon
Floating rate notes (FRNs) are bonds that have a variable coupon, equal to a money market reference rate, like SOFR or federal funds rate, plus a quoted
Floating_rate_note
Part of a number in scientific notation
(left) part of a number in scientific notation or related concepts in floating-point representation, consisting of its significant digits. For negative
Significand
1996 Australian film
Floating Life is a 1996 Australian drama film directed by Clara Law about a Hong Kong family who move to Australia. The film was selected as the Australian
Floating_Life
2011 novel by Ronald Malfi
Floating Staircase is a ghost story/mystery novel by American writer Ronald Malfi. It was published in 2011 by Medallion Press, with a limited edition
Floating_Staircase
Offshore gas recovery facility
A floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facility is a floating production storage and offloading unit that conducts liquefied natural gas (LNG) operations
Floating liquefied natural gas
Floating_liquefied_natural_gas
Topics referred to by the same term
Floating rate may refer to: Floating interest rate Floating rate note Floating exchange rate This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the
Floating_rate
1997 American film
Floating is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by William Roth and starring Norman Reedus. Van is a man who struggles set against a turbulent
Floating_(film)
Planet not gravitationally bound to a star
A rogue planet, also termed a free-floating planet (FFP) or an isolated planetary-mass object (iPMO), is an interstellar object of planetary mass which
Rogue_planet
Data types supported by the C programming language
64-bit IEEE 754 binary floating-point formats are used for float and double respectively. The C99 standard includes new real floating-point types float_t
C_data_types
1931 collaborative detective novel
The Floating Admiral is a chain-written, collaborative detective novel written by fourteen members of the British Detection Club in 1931. The twelve chapters
The_Floating_Admiral
2024 novel by Grace Curtis
Floating Hotel is a 2024 science fiction novel by British author Grace Curtis. The novel is set on the Grand Abeona Hotel, an interstellar hotel, focusing
Floating_Hotel_(novel)
Electrical ground not connected to Earth
A floating ground is a reference point for electrical potential in a circuit which is galvanically isolated from actual earth ground. Most electrical circuits
Floating_ground
Artwork by Christo and Jeanne-Claude on Lake Iseo, Italy
The Floating Piers was a temporary, site-specific work of art by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, consisting of 70,000 square meters of yellow fabric, carried
The_Floating_Piers
2012 Chinese-Hong Kong film by Yim Ho
Floating City (Chinese: 浮城; Jyutping: fau4 seng4) is a 2012 drama film directed by Yim Ho. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film was released on
Floating_City
Type of hinge that allows rotation and some linear movement
A floating hinge is a hinge that, while able to behave as a normal hinge, enables one of the objects to move away from the other - hence "float". In effect
Floating_hinge
Ability to think independently
Free-floating intellectuals or free-floating intelligentsia (German: Freischwebende Intelligenz) is a term from the sociology of knowledge that was used
Free-floating_intellectuals
Novel by John Barth
The Floating Opera is a novel by American writer John Barth, first published in 1956 and significantly revised in 1967. Barth's first published work, the
The_Floating_Opera
16-bit computer number format
Half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers)
Half-precision floating-point format
Half-precision_floating-point_format
Floating Village in Southern District, Hong Kong
The Aberdeen Floating Village is a fishing port situated in the Aberdeen area of the Southern District of Hong Kong. The port accommodates approximately
Aberdeen_floating_village
2008 studio album by John McLaughlin
Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix. The album reached number fourteen on Billboard's
Floating_Point
Summer event in Finland
Beer floating (Finnish: Kaljakellunta) is an open and unofficial Finnish summer event. In the event, the participants float on the Kerava River or Vantaa
Beer_floating
Vessels for weapon storage
Floating armouries are vessels used to store military grade weapons. Being in possession of military-grade weapons in most jurisdictions is highly controlled
Floating_armoury
pontoon bridges are semi-permanent floating bridges located throughout the world. Four of the five longest floating bridges in the world are located in
List_of_pontoon_bridges
Boat used as a home
community on the southern side of Hong Kong Island, known as Aberdeen Floating Village. There was also one such community in the Yau Ma Tei Typhoon Shelter
Houseboat
1989 studio album by Julee Cruise
Floating into the Night is the debut studio album by American singer Julee Cruise. It was released on September 12, 1989, by Warner Bros. Records, and
Floating_into_the_Night
Style of furniture shelf
A floating shelf is a form of shelf with its wall fixings hidden within the shelf board, with no visible supporting brackets. It is believed that the contemporary
Floating_shelf
Species of liverwort
Riccia fluitans, the floating crystalwort, is an aquatic floating plant of the liverwort genus Riccia which is popular among aquarists as a retreat for
Riccia_fluitans
Species of aquatic plant
(commonly known as floating fern, floating watermoss, floating moss, or commercially, water butterfly wings) is an annual floating aquatic fern, which
Salvinia_natans
The Floating Bethel was a river going vessel that planted churches and served as a platform for the missionary work of Rev. George T. Clayton, his wife
Floating_Bethel
Offshore ocean structure with oil drilling and related facilities
combined drilling and production facilities, either bottom-founded or floating platforms, and deepwater mobile offshore drilling units (MODU), including
Oil_platform
2015 Chinese film
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Floating Melon. Floating Melon (Original Chinese: 浮果; pinyin: Fu Guo; lit. 'floating fruit'; Spanish title Sandía amarga)
Floating_Melon
Variant of floating-point numbers in computers
In computing, tapered floating point (TFP) is a format similar to floating point, but with variable-sized entries for the significand and exponent instead
Tapered_floating_point
Floating Figure is a 1927 sculpture by Gaston Lachaise. Gaston Lachaise’s Floating Figure is a modernist allegorical statue of the artist’s muse as an
Floating_Figure
Car ferry on the Isle of Wight, England
The Cowes Floating Bridge is a vehicular chain ferry that crosses the River Medina on the Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England. The ferry crosses
Cowes_Floating_Bridge
2010 Vietnamese film
The Floating Lives (Vietnamese: Cánh đồng bất tận, lit. 'Endless fields') is a 2010 Vietnamese film based on a short story of the same name by Nguyen Ngoc
The_Floating_Lives
Treatise on hydrostatics by Archimedes
On Floating Bodies (Greek: Περὶ τῶν ἐπιπλεόντων σωμάτων) is a work, originally in two books, by Archimedes, one of the most important mathematicians, physicists
On_Floating_Bodies
128-bit computer number format
In computing, quadruple precision (or quad precision) is a binary floating-point–based computer number format that occupies 16 bytes (128 bits) with precision
Quadruple-precision floating-point format
Quadruple-precision_floating-point_format
Bridge in Vermont, US
The Sunset Lake Floating Bridge is a floating bridge that carries Vermont Route 65 across Sunset Lake in Brookfield, Vermont, United States. The first
Sunset_Lake_Floating_Bridge
Index of articles associated with the same name
A floating casino is a casino on board a ship, often permanently moored. This may be to advantage of less restrictive laws restricting gambling either
Floating_casino
Software license activation technique
Floating licensing, also known as concurrent licensing or network licensing, is a software licensing approach in which a limited number of licenses for
Floating_licensing
Medical condition
Floating–Harbor syndrome, also known as Pelletier–Leisti syndrome, is a rare disease with fewer than 50 cases described in the literature. It is usually
Floating–Harbor_syndrome
Mobile educational boats in flood-prone Bangladesh
Floating Schools in Bangladesh are mobile educational boats designed to provide access to schooling in flood-prone, riverine and haor regions of the country
Floating_Schools
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