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hard-float

hard-float is the alternative form of hardfloat.

Meaning of hardfloat

Adjective

hardfloat (not comparable)

  1. (especially of a platform) Has hardware implementations of floating-point numbers.
    Antonyms:
    softfloat

Origin of hard-float

From hard (as in hardware) + float (as in floating-point number).

Questions about hard-float

What is hard-float the alternative form of?
Hard-float is the alternative form of hardfloat.

Words near hard-float in the dictionary

  1. hard-edge paintings
  2. hard-edged
  3. hard-favoured
  4. hard-featured
  5. hard-fisted
  6. hard-float
  7. hard-fought
  8. hard-g
  9. hard-grained
  10. hard-handed
  11. hard-handedly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hard-float (page history and authors); hardfloat (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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