floating

The motion of something that floats.

Adjective

  1. That floats or float.
    • floating buoys
  2. Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.
    • The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters.
    • In China, the large floating population has tended to gravitate to cities.
    • You can drag the floating toolbars to any position on the screen.
  3. that is not attached to any consonant or vowel within its morpheme.

Origin

By surface analysis, float + -ing.

Derived

flixel floating academy floating beacon floating bog floating bridge floating car data floating cellular data floating collar floating dock floating feeling floating gold floating ground floating heart floating island floating kidney floating light floatingly floating market floating panel floating point floating-point floating-point number floating-point operation floating point operation

Noun

  1. The motion of something that floats.
  2. Material that floats in a liquid.
    • Plastic mud, brownish tinted, rich in floatings. - 1898, Journal of Microscopy, page 256:
  3. The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.
  4. A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.

Forms

floatings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of float