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soft-float

soft-float is the alternative form of softfloat.

Meaning of softfloat

Adjective

softfloat (not comparable)

  1. (especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them.
    Antonyms:
    hardfloat

Origin of soft-float

From soft (as in software) + float (as in floating-point number).

Questions about soft-float

What is soft-float the alternative form of?
Soft-float is the alternative form of softfloat.

Words near soft-float in the dictionary

  1. Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers
  2. soft-core
  3. soft-delete
  4. soft-dotted
  5. soft-drinkless
  6. soft-float
  7. soft-gamma repeater
  8. soft-gamma repeaters
  9. soft-grain
  10. soft-handed
  11. soft-headed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: soft-float (page history and authors); softfloat (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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