FP
FP is the initialism of floating point.
FP is the initialism of foreign policy.
FP is the initialism of front page.
FP is the initialism of function pointer.
FP is the initialism of functional programming.
FP is the initialism of false positive.
Meaning of floating point
Adjective
floating point (not comparable)
- 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.
- Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers.
Meaning of foreign policy
Noun
foreign policy (countable and uncountable, plural foreign policies)
- A government's policy relating to relations with other nations and international organisations.
- WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.2013 June 7, Gary Younge, “Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 18
- Used retrospectively, the sum of a leader or government's dealings and relations with other nations.
- Bismarck's foreign policy.
Forms of FP
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Phrases with FP
Questions about FP
- What is FP the initialism of?
- FP is the initialism of floating point.
Words near FP in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: FP (page history and authors); floating point (page history and authors); foreign policy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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