Float may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Music
Albums
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''Float'' (Aesop Rock album), 2000
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''Float'' (Flogging Molly album), 2008
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''Float'' (Styles P album), 2013
Songs
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"Float" (Tim and the Glory Boys song), 2022
* "Float", by Bush from ''
Golden State'', 2001
* "Float," by Eden from ''
Vertigo
Vertigo is a condition where a person has the sensation of movement or of surrounding objects moving when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. This may be associated with nausea, vomiting, sweating, or difficulties ...
'', 2018
* "Float", by The Music from ''
The Music'', 2002
* "Float", by RAH Band from ''
Mystery''
* "Float", by Russell Dickerson from ''
Yours'', 2017
Other uses
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Float (b-boy move)
The float (turtle) is a b-boying move originally coming from basic Gymnastics alongside variants specifically the Turtle. Though it appears to demand great strength, the float actually requires balance above all because the breaker's weight is su ...
, a balance-intensive breakdance move
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''Float'' (sculpture), a 1990 public artwork by American artist Peter Flanary
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''Float'' (film), a 2019 American animated short film produced by Pixar
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Float, Eastern Canada usage
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Float (parade)
Beverages
* Float, an
ice cream soda
An ice cream float or ice cream soda (also known as a spider in Australia and New Zealand), is a chilled beverage that consists of ice cream in either a soft drink or a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water.
When root beer and vanilla ic ...
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Floats (drink)
Floats were a beverage line introduced by the Dr Pepper Snapple in January 2008. Two flavors were available, A&W Float and Sunkist Float. The purpose of the concept was to mimic the flavor of an ice cream float of a given soda. Thus, the A&W fl ...
, line of bottled beverages designed to imitate the taste of an ice cream soda
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Float (bartending technique) Floating is a bartending technique where a liquor or ingredient is layered at the top of a drink. The cocktails or shots produced with this technique are known as either a Pousse-café or a layered drink. Although the amount of alcohol used in a ...
, the layering of liquid or ingredients on the top of a drink
Computing
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Float (computing)
In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic that represents real numbers approximately, using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base. For example, 12.345 can be r ...
* Float, a
Cascading Style Sheets attribute
* Float, a
single precision
Single-precision floating-point format (sometimes called FP32 or float32) is a computer number format, usually occupying 32 bits in computer memory; it represents a wide dynamic range of numeric values by using a floating radix point.
A floati ...
binary computer number format
Finance and economics
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Float (money supply)
* Float, the act of moving a currency to a
floating exchange rate
In macroeconomics and economic policy, a floating exchange rate (also known as a fluctuating or flexible exchange rate) is a type of exchange rate regime in which a currency's value is allowed to fluctuate in response to foreign exchange ma ...
* Cash float, the money in a
cash register needed at the beginning of a business day in order to give change to customers
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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
* Stock market float, an
initial public offering
An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...
(IPO), particularly in British English
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Insurance
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge ...
float, investable funds collected from premiums but not paid out in claims
Fishing-related
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Fishing float, a bite indicator used in angling
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Fishing net float
A fishing net is a Net (device), net used for fishing. Nets are devices made from fibers woven in a grid-like structure. Some fishing nets are also called fish traps, for example #Fyke nets, fyke nets. Fishing nets are usually meshes formed by ...
, small floats attached along one side of the net so that it hangs vertically in the water
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Glass float
Glass floats, glass fishing floats, or Japanese glass fishing floats are popular collectors' items. They were once used by fishermen in many parts of the world to keep their fishing nets, as well as longlines or droplines, afloat.
Large grou ...
, a type of large float used to keep fishing nets or droplines afloat
Science
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Float (oceanographic instrument platform)
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Float voltage, an external electric potential required to keep a battery fully charged
Tools
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Float (liquid level)
Liquid level floats, also known as float balls, are spherical, cylindrical, oblong or similarly shaped objects, made from either rigid or flexible material, that are buoyant in water and other liquids. They are non-electrical hardware frequently u ...
, a fluid-level indicator used in process engineering and plumbing
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Float (woodworking), a tool used to cut, flatten and/or smooth wood via abrasion
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Concrete float, a finishing tool for smoothing wet concrete surfaces
* Float, a
rasp-like tool sporting sharp cutting teeth, sometimes used on horse teeth
Vehicles
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Float (horse-drawn), a form of two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a low loadbed
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Float (nautical), an external, buoyant section of a water vessel (such as a pontoon boat or floatplane)
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Float (parade), a decorated vehicle or moving platform, could be animal- or man-drawn or motorized, used in a festive parade
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Float shifting or "floating gears", the practice of shifting gears on a manual transmission without using the clutch
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Milk float, a small battery electric vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk
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Valve float, a condition of an internal combustion engine
Other uses
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Float (project management), a time-management device
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Float railway station
Float Railway Station was a former station on the Inny Junction to Cavan branch of the Midland Great Western Railway, Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atl ...
, a former railway station in County Westmeath, Ireland
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Swimming float or pool float, a device used to aid swimmers with buoyancy
* Float, an
animal name for a group of crocodiles
See also
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Buoyancy
Buoyancy (), or upthrust, is an upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object. In a column of fluid, pressure increases with depth as a result of the weight of the overlying fluid. Thus the p ...
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Floating (disambiguation)
Floating may refer to:
* a type of dental work performed on horse teeth
* use of an isolation tank
* the guitar-playing technique where chords are sustained rather than scratched
* ''Floating'' (play), by Hugh Hughes
* Floating (psychological phe ...
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Flotation (disambiguation)
Flotation (also spelled floatation) involves phenomena related to the relative buoyancy of objects.
The term may also refer to:
*Flotation (archaeology), a method for recovering very small artefacts from excavated sediments
*Flotation (shares), ...
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