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:
“Eftsoones the Nymphes, which now had Flowers their fill,
Ran all in haste, to see that silver brood,
As they came floating on the Christal Flood,”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)
“I know, it must have been my imagination, but it makes me realize how desperately alone the Earth is. Hanging in space like a speck of food floating in the ocean. Sooner or later to be swallowed up by some creature floating by.... Time will tell, Dr. Mason. We can only wait and wonder. Wonder how, wonder when.”
—Tom Graeff. Young astronomer, Teenagers from Outer Space, after just seeing the invading spaceship through his telescope, and dismissing it (1959)
“They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,—and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)