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 ground, is a ground in an electric circuit that is a reference node serving as a common return path for current from other components, which is not electrically connected to the Earth.
- Floating, a type of dental work performed on horse teeth
- Float voltage, an 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
- Subspace (BDSM), the psychological state of the submissive partner in a BDSM scene
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Famous quotes containing the word floating:
“It is only for a little while, only occasionally, methinks, that we want a garden. Surely a good man need not be at the labor to level a hill for the sake of a prospect, or raise fruits and flowers, and construct floating islands, for the sake of a paradise. He enjoys better prospects than lie behind any hill. Where an angel travels it will be paradise all the way, but where Satan travels it will be burning marl and cinders.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.”
—William Blackstone (1723–1780)
“The true reformer does not want time, nor money, nor coöperation, nor advice. What is time but the stuff delay is made of? And depend upon it, our virtue will not live on the interest of our money. He expects no income, but outgoes; so soon as we begin to count the cost, the cost begins. And as for advice, the information floating in the atmosphere of society is as evanescent and unserviceable to him as gossamer for clubs of Hercules.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)