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floating1 adjectivefloating2 noun floatingfloat‧ing1 /ˈfləʊtɪŋ $ ˈfloʊ-/ adjective [only before noun]   - Employees are asking for three floating holidays each year.
- A floating point accelerator, larger disk and memory expansion are options.
- It is unclear as to whether the making of an administration order crystallises a floating charge.
- The light moved like smoke, or heavy gas not in straight lines, but floating ribbons ...
- The plants are the phytoplankton, and the floating animals are the zooplankton.
- The surface was paved with massive stones and on these watery foundations Venice was built - a floating city!
- This is a project aimed at building a computer which can process one million floating point operations per second.
- When they are combined, these enhancements are expected to increase the SuperSparc-II's floating point to a integer ratio.
- Your Upside-Down Catfish may well settle down if you include some floating plants beneath which they can hide.
NOUN► rate· For example, a borrower may negotiate a floating rate.· Should the debt be at a fixed or a floating rate?· Under a totally free floating rate, total currency flow surpluses will be eliminated by an appreciation of the exchange rate.· Remember the wild oscillations of the pound under floating rates?· If interest rates change adversely, finance houses could find themselves funding fixed rate loans with more expensive floating rate loans. ► voter· Had the floating voters, floated off?· Mr. Ewing I am delighted to learn that you are a floating voter, Mr. Speaker. ► be walking/floating on air- Martha felt that she was walking on air and when she entered the kitchen, Annie looked up.
- She felt as though she was floating on air.
often changing, and not staying the same:  You can choose either a fixed or floating interest rate for the loan. The area has a large floating population.floating1 adjectivefloating2 noun floatingfloating2 noun [uncountable] - But with floating, it is argued, no such discipline exists.
- Discretionary adjustment via the exchange rate is not easy under managed floating.
- The present system of managed floating does contain the possibility of direct conflict if official intervention is carried out at cross-purposes.
- Therefore, managed floating does not have the advantage of making redundant the holding of official reserves.
- This reasoning suggests that capital flows are potentially more stabilizing under floating.
► be walking/floating on air- Martha felt that she was walking on air and when she entered the kitchen, Annie looked up.
- She felt as though she was floating on air.
the activity of sitting in a flotation tank in order to relax, or to treat illness or injury |