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Float or floating may refer to the following:
- Float (finance), the free float of a public company is an estimate of proportion of shares
- Float (fishing), a bite indicator used in angling
- 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
- Floats (nautical), the air filled structures on a pontoon boat
- Float, another word for ice cream soda
- Float, a Cascading Style Sheets attribute.
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- Floating (play), by Hugh Hughes
- Floating (dance), a group of footwork-oriented dance techniques closely related to popping
- Floating point, a representation in computing of rational numbers, most commonly associated with the IEEE 754 standard
- Floating (psychological phenomenon), slipping into altered states
- Floating, the psychological state of the submissive partner in a BDSM scene
- Floating, making use of an isolation tank
- Floating, being electrically disconnected from an electronic power source, for example a floating-gate transistor
- 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, the guitar technique of sustaining a chord rather than scratching, also called dampening
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