Usually means: Numerical representation with decimal points.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word floating-point:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. floating-point: Merriam-Webster.com
  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: Wiktionary
  6. floating-point: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. floating-point: Dictionary.com
  8. Floating-point: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. floating-point: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. floating-point: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. floating-point: Encyclopedia

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (floating-point)

adjective:  Alternative form of floating point. [(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.]

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