Used in a Sentence

floats

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for floats.

Editorial note

Unums shouldn't be seen as better than ints, longs, floats, or doubles anymore than a double is seen as better than an int.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of floats gathered in one view.

verb

To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

verb

To not be tied to a reference.

noun

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for floats.

verb

To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

verb

To not be tied to a reference.

noun

A buoyant device used to support something in water or another liquid.

noun

A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

Example sentences

1

Unums shouldn't be seen as better than ints, longs, floats, or doubles anymore than a double is seen as better than an int.

2

This handler floats behind the kids and watches where phones and wallets go when they're placed back in pockets.

3

Your feature images are not consistent aspect ratio (particularly the heights) causing the floats to drop.

4

Also, how do you differentiate the drowning response from someone that's just bad at treading water and floats low in the water?

5

Space Engineers currently uses floats as the basis for their world coordinate system.

6

However, a serious 0day or attack plan that could take down the network would be valuable now that it floats on a public exchange.

7

You can do most operations on 8, 16, 32, 64 unsigned and signed, and of course 32-bit and 64-bit floats.

8

What's the rising tide that floats all boats these days?

9

Neural network training is a similar one for floats.

10

I don't see unums replacing floats for, say, video game graphics.

11

But you need to simplify to reach a large number of people so that at the very least, the idea of full solar power generation floats in the collective mind.

12

> Also, how do you differentiate the drowning response from someone that's just bad at treading water and floats low in the water?

Quote examples

1

There is a whole chapter on "fixed-size unums" and the issues of making them just as easy to index as arrays as are floats.

2

I want to use floats." "I want to do it in a browser." Software runs slow because nobody cares any more.

3

For hardware without a FPU, you can do floats in software when accuracy is more important than speed (vs fixed point), one can imagine that if this thing actually works then for hardware without a "UPU" one can just do unums in software when needed.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use floats in a sentence?

Unums shouldn't be seen as better than ints, longs, floats, or doubles anymore than a double is seen as better than an int.

What does floats mean?

To be supported by a liquid of greater density, such that part (of the object or substance) remains above the surface.

What part of speech is floats?

floats is commonly used as verb, noun.