Usually means: Numerical representation with decimal points.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. floating-point, floating point: Merriam-Webster
  2. floating-point: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. floating-point: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Floating-Point, Floating-point, floating-point: Wordnik
  5. floating-point, floating point: Wiktionary
  6. floating-point: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. floating point: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. floating-point, floating point: Dictionary.com
  9. Floating Point, Floating-point, Floating point: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. floating-point: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. floating-point: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. floating point: CCI Computer
  3. Floating Point: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. floating-point, floating point: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (floating point)

adjective:  (mathematics) Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 × 10¹.
adjective:  (computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.

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