floral cup
- n the cuplike or ringlike or tubular structure of a flower which bears the sepals and stamens and calyx (as in Rosaceae)
floater
- n spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
floaters seem to drift through the field of vision - n a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
- n a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
- n an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
- n a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
- n a swimmer who floats in the water
- n an object that floats or is capable of floating
- n an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
floating-point notation
- n a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent
floating-point number
- n a number represented in floating-point notation
floating-point operation
- n an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
floating-point representation system
- n a radix numeration system in which the location of the decimal point is indicated by an exponent of the radix; in the floating-point representation system, 0.0012 is represented as 0.12-2 where -2 is the exponent
floating bridge
- n a temporary bridge built over a series of pontoons