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Float or floating may refer to:

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• Public float, the total number of shares publicly owned and available for trading, after subtracting restricted shares from the total outstanding shares.
• Fishing float, a bite indicator used in angling
• Fishing net float, small floats attached along one side of the net so that it hangs vertically in the water
• Glass float, a type of large float used to keep fishing nets or droplines afloat
• Float (liquid level), a fluid-level indicator used in process engineering and plumbing
• Float (money supply), duplicate money present in the banking system during an electronic transaction
• Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform, animal- or man-drawn or motorized, used in a festive parade
• Float (project management), project time management device
• Float (nautical), the air filled structures on a pontoon boat or floatplane
• Float (horse-drawn), a form of two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a low loadbed.
• Float, also known as ice cream soda
• Float or horse float, also known as horse trailer
• Float, a Cascading Style Sheets attribute
• Float, a single precision binary floating-point computer number format
• Concrete float, a finishing tool for smoothing wet concrete surfaces
• Float, a rasp-like tool having a series of sharp cutting teeth

• Planemaker's float
• Equine dental float, a short float with a long handle, used on horse teeth

• Float, a term used in paleontology to describe bits of fossil bone with no scientific value
• Float (bartending technique)

Music [edit]

• Float (Aesop Rock album), a 2000 album by rapper Aesop Rock
• Float (Styles P album), a 2013 album by rapper Styles P
• Float (breakdance move), a balance-intensive breakdance move
• Float (Flogging Molly album), a 2008 album by Irish American Celtic punk band Flogging Molly
• "Float", a song from the album The Music by the band of the same name
• "Float", is also a song by the British rock band Bush from their 2001 album Golden State

Floating [edit]

• 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

Music [edit]

• Floating (album), the third album by the German progressive rock band Eloy
• Floating (Smog EP), 1991
• Floating (The Moody Blues song)
• Floating (Megan Rochell song)
• Floating (Jape song)

See also [edit]

• Flotation (disambiguation)
• Buoyancy, the upward force that keeps things afloat
• Milk float, a small battery electric vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk
• Valve float, a condition of an internal combustion engine

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