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'Float' or 'floating' may refer to the following:

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★ Float, an air-filled vessel such as a boat or ship floats on water; see also Buoyancy

★ Pneumatocyst, a gas-filled organ of some seaweeds

★ Float (fishing), a bite indicator used in angling

★ Float (CSS attribute), a Cascading Style Sheets attribute that specifies an element's alignment relative to the elements it precedes.

★ Float, the common name for the IEEE 754 standard for representing floating point numbers in computer science

★ Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform, animal- or man-drawn or motorzied, used in a festive parade

★ Float (project management), the amount of time that a terminal element in a project network can be delayed by, without causing a delay to: subsequent terminal elements, or project completion date

★ Float (money supply), in economics, makes up the smallest part of the money supply

★ Float (finance); the free float of a public company is an estimate of proportion of shares that are not held by large owners and that are not stock with sales restrictions

★ Float, in insurance, investable policyholder funds

★ Float (breakdance move), a balance-intensive breakdance move in which the body is held parallel to the floor while balancing on one or both hands

★ ''Float'' (album), the first major release of rapper Aesop Rock

★ ''Float'', a song by The Music from their 2003 album ''The Music''

★ Valve float, part of an internal combustion engine

★ Milk float, a small battery electric vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk

★ Root beer float, ice cream and root beer mixed together

★ FloAts Mobile Agent, an open-source mobile phone management program

★ Planemaker's Float, a rasp-like woodworking tool having a series of sharp parallel cutting teeth.

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★ Buoyancy

★ Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping (back) into altered states

★ Floating, the guitar technique of sustaining a chord rather than scratching

★ Floating currency, a currency that uses a floating exchange rate as its exchange rate regime

★ Floating exchange rate, a type of exchange rate regime wherein a currency's value is allowed to fluctuate according to the foreign exchange market

★ Floating (dance), a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques closely related to popping

★ Floating point, a datatype in computer science

★ Floating, in electronics, being electrically disconnected from a power source, for example, a floating-gate transistor has a gate element insulated from its electrodes

★ Floating, in computer typesetting environments such as HTML, wikitext, or desktop publishing, describes the alignment of an element to the left or right while text wraps around it

★ Floating (album), the third album by the German progressive rock band Eloy

★ Isolation tank, people often refer to using a sensory deprivation, isolation tank for relaxation as "floating".