present participle of float at

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of float at

(transitive) To present or make available to; offer, especially prospectively. / (intransitive) To arrive without warning, but not suddenly.

(transport, nautical) A form of marine vessel which allows large floating objects (such as other ships, or oil platforms, etc) to be floated atop and floated off the ship's transport decktop.

simple past tense and past participle of float someone's boat

An estimate of the proportion of shares of a public company that are not held by large owners and that are not stock with sales restrictions.

(firearms) to alter a firearm so that no part of the barrel touches the stock.

An aggregation of driftwood, roots, etc., capable of bearing soil, floated out from a river delta or similar.

Alternative form of floating point.

(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.