Float may refer to:

Common usage

Lowboy (trailer) A lowboy (low-loader in British English, low-bed in western Canada and South Africa or float in Australia and eastern Canada) is a semi-trailer with two drops in deck height: one right after the trailer (vehicle), gooseneck and one right before t ...

, called a float in Eastern Canada usage *

Float (parade) A float is a decorated platform, either built on a vehicle like a truck or towed behind one, which is a component of many festive parades, such as those of Rio Carnival, Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, the São Paulo Carnival, Carnival in São Paulo, ...

Arts and entertainment

* ''Float'' (sculpture), a 1990 public artwork by American artist Peter Flanary * ''Float'' (2019 film), a 2019 American animated short film produced by Pixar * ''Float'' (2023 film), a 2023 drama film directed by Sherren Lee * Float (b-boy move), a balance-intensive breakdance move

Music

Albums

* ''Float'' (Aesop Rock album) or the title song, 2000 * ''Float'' (Flogging Molly album) or the title song, 2008 * ''Float'' (K Camp album), 2021 * ''Float'' (Styles P album), 2013

Songs

* "Float" (song), by Tim and the Glory Boys, 2022 * "Float", by 6lack from '' 6pc Hot EP'', 2020 * "Float", by Bush from '' Golden State'', 2001 * "Float", by Eden from ''

Vertigo Vertigo is a condition in which a person has the sensation that they are moving, or that objects around them are moving, when they are not. Often it feels like a spinning or swaying movement. It may be associated with nausea, vomiting, perspira ...

'', 2018 * "Float", by Janelle Monáe from ''

The Age of Pleasure ''The Age of Pleasure'' is the fourth studio album by American musician Janelle Monáe. It was released on June 9, 2023, through Atlantic Records, being the singer's first studio album in over five years, since '' Dirty Computer'' (2018). The albu ...

'', 2023 * "Float", by Love Battery from '' Far Gone'', 1993 * "Float", by the Music from ''

The Music The Music was an English alternative rock band, formed in Kippax, Leeds in 1999. Comprising Robert Harvey (vocals, guitar), Adam Nutter (lead guitar), Stuart Coleman (bass) and Phil Jordan (drums), the band came to prominence with the releas ...

'', 2002 * "Float", by Pacific Air from ''

Long Live Koko ''Long Live KOKO'' is the debut EP by Pacific Air. Reception The EP was positively received, with Sputnik Music writing that "although indie music is full of unoriginality and it sounds monotonous at times, Pacific Air have added their own uni ...

'', 2012 * "Float", by RAH Band from ''

Mystery Mystery, The Mystery, Mysteries or The Mysteries may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters *Mystery, a cat character in ''Emily the Strange'' *Mystery, a seahorse that SpongeBob SquarePants adopts in the episode " My Pre ...

'', 1985 * "Float", by Robin Schulz from '' IIII'', 2021 * "Float", by Russell Dickerson from '' Yours'', 2017

Beverages

* Float, an

ice cream soda An ice cream float or ice cream soda, also known as an ice cream spider in Australia and New Zealand, is a chilled beverage made by adding ice cream to a soft drink or to a mixture of flavored syrup and carbonated water. When root beer and va ...

Floats (drink) Floats were a beverage line introduced by 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 fla ...

, line of bottled beverages designed to imitate the taste of an ice cream soda *

Float (bartending technique) A layered (or "stacked") drink, sometimes called a pousse-café, is a kind of cocktail in which the slightly different densities of various liqueurs are used to create an array of colored layers, typically two to seven. The specific gravity of t ...

, the layering of liquid or ingredients on the top of a drink

Computing

Float (computing) In computing, floating-point arithmetic (FP) is arithmetic on subsets of real numbers formed by a '' significand'' (a signed sequence of a fixed number of digits in some base) multiplied by an integer power of that base. Numbers of this for ...

* 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 floa ...

binary computer number format

Finance and economics

Float (money supply) In economics, float is duplicate money present in the banking system during the time between a deposit being made in the recipient's account and the money being deducted from the sender's account. It can be used as investable asset, but makes up t ...

* 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 market ...

* Cash float, the money in a

cash register A cash register, sometimes called a till or automated money handling system, is a mechanical or electronic device for registering and calculating transactions at a point of sale. It is usually attached to a Cash register#Cash drawer, drawer fo ...

needed at the beginning of a business day in order to give change to customers *

Public float In the context of stock markets, the public float or free float represents the portion of shares of a corporation that are in the hands of public investors as opposed to locked-in shares held by promoters, company officers, controlling-interest inv ...

, 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 investm ...

(IPO), particularly in British English *

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 protect ...

float, investable funds collected from premiums but not paid out in claims

Fishing-related

Fishing float A fishing float or bobber is a lightweight buoy used in angling, usually attached to a fishing line. Angling using a float is sometimes called float fishing. A float can serve several purposes: * firstly, it serves as a visual bite indicator t ...

, 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

Science

* Float (oceanography), an oceanographic instrument platform *

Float voltage Float voltage is the voltage at which a battery is maintained after being fully charged to maintain that capacity by compensating for self-discharge of the battery. The voltage could be held constant for the entire duration of the cell's operation ...

, an external electric potential required to keep a battery fully charged * Float or a floater, a piece of rock transported away from original

outcrop An outcrop or rocky outcrop is a visible exposure of bedrock or ancient superficial deposits on the surface of the Earth and other terrestrial planets. Features Outcrops do not cover the majority of the Earth's land surface because in most p ...

Tools

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 ...

, a fluid-level indicator used in process engineering and plumbing *

Float (woodworking) A woodworking float (more rarely used in silversmithing), also called a planemaker's float, is a tapered, flat, single cut file of two types: ''edge float'' and the ''flat sided float'' which are traditional woodworking tools generally used when m ...

, a tool used to cut, flatten and/or smooth wood via abrasion *

Concrete float A concrete float is a tool used to finish a concrete surface by making it smooth. A float is used after the surface has been made level using a screed. In addition to removing surface imperfections, floating will compact the concrete as preparatio ...

, a finishing tool for smoothing wet concrete surfaces * Float, a

rasp A rasp is a coarse form of file used for shaping wood, metal, or other material. Typically a hand tool, it consists of a generally tapered rectangular, round, or half-round sectioned bar of case hardened steel with distinct, individually cu ...

-like tool sporting sharp cutting teeth, sometimes used on horse teeth

Vehicles

Float (horse-drawn) A float is a form of two-wheeled Horse-drawn vehicle, horse-drawn cart, often with a dropped axle to give an especially low load-bed. They were intended for use by deliverymen and the carrying of heavy or unstable items such as milk churns. De ...

, a form of two-wheeled horse-drawn cart with a low loadbed *

Float (nautical) A float (also called a pontoon) is an airtight hollow structure, similar to a pressure vessel, designed to provide buoyancy in water. Its principal applications are in hull (watercraft), watercraft hulls, Floatplane, aircraft floats, Floating do ...

, an external, buoyant section of a water vessel (such as a pontoon boat or a floatplane) *

, a decorated vehicle or moving platform, could be animal- or man-drawn or motorized, used in a festive parade *

Float shifting Float shifting or floating gears, also called "slip shifting", "dead sticking", or "bang shifting", is the process of changing gears, in typically a non-synchronous transmission, without depressing the clutch. Shifting in this manner is also used ...

or "floating gears", the practice of shifting gears on a manual transmission without using the clutch *

Milk float A milk float is a vehicle specifically designed for the Delivery (commerce), delivery of fresh milk. Today, milk floats are usually battery electric vehicles (BEV), but they were formerly Float (horse-drawn), horse-drawn floats. They were ...

, a small battery electric vehicle specifically designed for the delivery of fresh milk *

Valve float Valve float is an adverse condition which can occur at high engine speeds when the poppet valves in an internal combustion engine valvetrain do not properly follow the closure phase of the cam lobe profile. This reduces engine efficiency and perfo ...

, a condition of an internal combustion engine

Other uses

Float (project management) In project management, float or slack is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed without causing a delay to: * subsequent tasks ("''free float''") * project completion date ("''total float''"). ''Total float'' is assoc ...

, a time-management device * Float railway station, a former railway station in County Westmeath, Ireland *

Swimming float A swimming float, commonly known as pool float or floaty, is a device used for toddlers or other very young children who are beginning to learn how to swim, or during exercise for therapeutic or training purposes. These devices, which come in man ...

or pool float, a device used to aid swimmers with buoyancy * Float, an animal name for a group of crocodiles