minifloats

Noun

minifloat (plural minifloats)

1. 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
2. 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).