minifloat
minifloat noun: a small float (an elaborately decorated vehicle in a parade or pageant).
Noun
minifloat (plural minifloats)
- A small float (an elaborately decorated vehicle in a parade or pageant).
- People of color were not the only ones missing. Despite the paradelike atmosphere, there was not a child in sight. The naked people scare parents away, as do the occasionally obscene banners and minifloats.2007, Jack Cashill, What's the Matter With California? Cultural Rumbles From the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking, New York, N.Y.: Threshold Editions, →ISBN, page 166
- A floating-point number represented with very few bits (such as 8 or 16, when a more common size would be 32 or 64 bits).
Forms of minifloat
| plural | minifloats |
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Origin of minifloat
From mini- + float.
Questions about minifloat
- What does minifloat mean?
- Minifloat means a small float (an elaborately decorated vehicle in a parade or pageant).
- What part of speech is minifloat?
- Minifloat is a noun.
- What is the plural of minifloat?
- The plural of minifloat is minifloats.
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