See softfloat in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "From soft (as in software) + float (as in floating-point number).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "softfloat (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "hardfloat"
}
],
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Computing",
"orig": "en:Computing",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Programming",
"orig": "en:Programming",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"(especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them."
],
"id": "en-softfloat-en-adj-HdpWRHKm",
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"platform",
"platform"
],
[
"hardware",
"hardware"
],
[
"implementations",
"implementations"
],
[
"floating-point numbers",
"floating-point numbers"
],
[
"software",
"software"
],
[
"soft floats",
"soft floats"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing, programming) (especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "softfloat"
}
{
"etymology_text": "From soft (as in software) + float (as in floating-point number).",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "softfloat (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "hardfloat"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Computing",
"en:Programming"
],
"glosses": [
"(especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them."
],
"links": [
[
"computing",
"computing#Noun"
],
[
"programming",
"programming#Noun"
],
[
"platform",
"platform"
],
[
"hardware",
"hardware"
],
[
"implementations",
"implementations"
],
[
"floating-point numbers",
"floating-point numbers"
],
[
"software",
"software"
],
[
"soft floats",
"soft floats"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(computing, programming) (especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them."
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
],
"topics": [
"computing",
"engineering",
"mathematics",
"natural-sciences",
"physical-sciences",
"programming",
"sciences"
]
}
],
"word": "softfloat"
}
Download raw JSONL data for softfloat meaning in English (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-09-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-23 using wiktextract (20da82b and a97feda). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.