Float

There are several meanings of float:

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• an air-filled vessel that floats on water, such as some types of lifeboats
• buoyancy
• float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform used in a festive parade
• float (project management)
• float (money supply and banking)
• floating currency
• floating exchange rate
• floating point, a datatype in computer science
• free float of company stock
• insurance (investable policyholder funds)
• floating (psychological phenomenon)
• root beer float: ice cream and root beer mixed together
• In computer typesetting environments such as HTML, wikitext or desktop publishing, "floating" describes the alignment of an element (such as an image or table) to the left or right while text wraps around it. The 'float' command is used in Cascading Style Sheets (inline styles) and in wikitext in syntax such as:

{| style="float:left"

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