"floating point" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adjective|-}} floating point (not comparable)
  1. (mathematics) Of a number, written in two parts as a mantissa (also called significand, the value of the significant digits) and characteristic (order of magnitude / the power of a number base) e.g. 0.314159 × 10¹. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-floating_point-en-adj-74c4FyTb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Topics: mathematics, sciences
  2. (computing) Of the internal representation of such a number as a pair of integers. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Computing Translations (computing): 浮点 (fau⁴ dim²) (Chinese Cantonese), 浮點 (Chinese Cantonese), 浮点 (fúdiǎn) (Chinese Mandarin), 浮點 (Chinese Mandarin), liukuluku- (Finnish), virgule flottante [feminine] (French), Gleitkomma [neuter] (German), lebegőpontos (Hungarian), 浮動小数点 (fudō shōsūten) (alt: ふどうしょうすうてん) (Japanese), 부동 소수점 (budong sosujeom) (Korean), zmiennoprzecinkowy [masculine] (Polish), ponto flutuante [masculine] (Portuguese), virgulă mobilă [feminine] (Romanian), punto flotante [masculine] (Spanish), coma flotante [feminine] (Spanish), flyttal [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-floating_point-en-adj-L~smDJuL Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'computing': 30 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: floating-point Derived forms: floating point operation Related terms: FLOP, FLOPS

Alternative forms

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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "Gleitkomma"
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    {
      "code": "hu",
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      "sense": "computing",
      "word": "lebegőpontos"
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      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "fudō shōsūten",
      "sense": "computing",
      "word": "浮動小数点"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "budong sosujeom",
      "sense": "computing",
      "word": "부동 소수점"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "zmiennoprzecinkowy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ponto flutuante"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "virgulă mobilă"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "punto flotante"
    },
    {
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "computing",
      "tags": [
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      "sense": "computing",
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