the act of someone who floats on the water
Used in a Sentence
floating
How to use floating in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for floating.
Editorial note
What you see, in the end, is a large image floating out in space.
Examples13
Definitions6
Parts of speech2
Quick take
the act of someone who floats on the water
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of floating gathered in one view.
borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for floating.
noun
the act of someone who floats on the water
See also: natation
adjective
borne up by or suspended in a liquid; "the ship is still floating"; "floating logs"; "floating seaweed"
adjective
continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
adjective
inclined to move or be moved about; "a floating crap game"
adjective
(of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position; "floating ribs are not connected with the sternum"; "a floating kidney"
adjective
not definitely committed to a party or policy; "floating voters"
Example sentences
What you see, in the end, is a large image floating out in space.
Heh, funny to see this still floating around.
Not land, sea on a floating platform they made themselves.
You're not floating freely, so clearly something's going on.
But that's totally unconvincing to me: if you want 64-bit floating point precision, use doubles.
Jelly fish are floating piles of goo with absolutely no purpose or delight in life other than being floating piles of goo.
...Sure, your computer can perform 10 billion floating point operations per second.
An idea has been floating around for a while now that, in theory, you could use eminent domain to seize not just the houses, but the mortgages on the houses.
"Yeah, Reader held back the development of the robot car, glasses, floating balloon internet and the brazilian social site...
This is why SMT solvers supporting floating point numbers is so exciting: it makes this sort of approach practical even for programs that use lots of doubles.
Because, of course, floating point addition and multiplication is not associative.
In particular, several SMT solvers including Z3[1] now support a "theory of floating point" which lets us exhaustively verify and analyze programs that use floating point numbers.
Since the ball motion, physics, and coordinates were all in floating point, and the ball is constantly being pushed "down" the sloped table by the gravity vector in every frame, we found that floating point error would gradually accumulate until the ball's position was suddenly on the other side of the barrier!
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use floating in a sentence?
What you see, in the end, is a large image floating out in space.
What does floating mean?
the act of someone who floats on the water
What part of speech is floating?
floating is commonly used as noun, adjective.