float

float

In programming, a declaration of a floating point number.

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float

1. Angling an indicator attached to a baited line that sits on the water and moves when a fish bites

2. Chiefly US any buoyant object, such as a platform or inflated tube, used offshore by swimmers or, when moored alongside a pier, as a dock by vessels

3. a blade of a paddle wheel

4. Brit a buoyant garment or device to aid a person in staying afloat

5. a hollow watertight structure fitted to the underside of an aircraft to allow it to land on water

6. another name for air bladder

7. a motor vehicle used to carry a tableau or exhibit in a parade, esp a civic parade

8. a small delivery vehicle, esp one powered by batteries

9. Austral and NZ a vehicle for transporting horses

10. a sum of money used by shopkeepers to provide change at the start of the day's business, this sum being subtracted from the total at the end of the day when calculating the day's takings

11. Engineering a hollow cylindrical structure in a carburettor that actuates the fuel valve

12. (in textiles) a single thread brought to or above the surface of a woven fabric, esp to form a pattern

13. Forestry a measure of timber equal to eighteen loads

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float [flōt]

(agriculture)

A device consisting of one or more blades used to level a seedbed.

(biology)

An air-filled sac in many pelagic flora and fauna that serves to buoy up the body of the organism.

(design engineering)

A file which has a single set of parallel teeth.

(engineering)

A flat, rectangular piece of wood with a handle, used to apply and smooth coats of plaster.

A mechanical device to finish the surface of freshly placed concrete paving.

A marble-polishing block.

Any structure that provides positive buoyancy such as a hollow, watertight unit that floats or rests on the surface of a fluid.

plummet

(geology)

An isolated, displaced rock or ore fragment.

(industrial engineering)

bank

(textiles)

A thread used to create patterns in fabric by passing over other threads.

A fabric defect caused by passing a thread over other threads where it should be interwoven.