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Floating dry dock
A floating dry dock is a buoyant, submersible structure that sinks to receive a ship, then rises and lifts it clear of the water for repairs.
Floating exchange rate
A floating exchange rate, also called a floating or flexible currency, is a currency rate set by the market, not targeted by authorities, and dominant since 1973.
Floating floor
A floating floor is a floor construction whose finish layer rests on a resilient underlay without any mechanical fixing, isolating vibration and reducing impact noise such as footsteps.
Floating frame of reference formulation
The floating frame of reference formulation (FFRF or FFR) is a multibody dynamics method that describes flexible bodies with large overall motion and small deformation using a body-fixed reference frame.
Floating island
A floating island is a buoyant mass of vegetation, peat, or other material resting on a lake's surface, occurring naturally in wetlands and built deliberately for water treatment.
Floating island (dessert)
Floating island (île flottante, œufs à la neige, snow eggs) is a French dessert of poached or baked sweetened meringue on crème anglaise with caramel and almonds, distinct from crisp meringue desserts.
Floating launch vehicle operations platform
A floating launch vehicle operations platform is a marine vessel for launching or landing orbital rockets, from converted oil rigs to barges; Sea Launch's Odyssey pioneered it in 1999.
Floating Points
Floating Points is the alias of British producer, composer and DJ Sam Shepherd (b. project 2008), known for Elaenia, Promises with Pharoah Sanders and the LSO, Cascade (2024), Eglo Records, and the Mere Mortals ballet score.
Floating production storage and offloading
A floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel is a ship-shaped offshore facility that processes oil from subsea wells, stores it, and offloads it to tankers.
Floating rate note
A floating rate note (FRN, or floater) is a debt security whose coupon resets regularly to a reference rate such as SOFR plus a fixed spread.
Floating slab track
Floating slab track is a railway trackform in which a concrete slab carrying the rails sits on resilient bearings to reduce ground-borne vibration from trains.
Floating solar
Floating solar, also called floating photovoltaics (FPV) or floatovoltaics, installs solar panels on floating structures on lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, saving land and cooling panels for higher yields.
Floating storage and regasification unit
A floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) is a ship moored at an LNG import terminal that stores LNG, regasifies it, and sends gas to the onshore pipeline network.
Floating treatment wetland
A floating treatment wetland is a buoyant, vegetated system in which plants on a floating frame remove nutrients and pollutants from ponds, lakes, and reservoirs.
Floating Weeds (浮草)
Floating Weeds (浮草, Ukigusa) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1959 Daiei color drama, a self-remake of his 1934 silent A Story of Floating Weeds, shot by Kazuo Miyagawa with Nakamura Ganjirō II, Machiko Kyō, and Ayako Wakao.
Floating wind turbine
A floating wind turbine is an offshore turbine mounted on a buoyant, moored platform for waters too deep for fixed foundations, first demonstrated off Norway in 2009.
Floating zone method
The floating zone method is a crucible-free crystal growth technique in which a molten zone passed through a rod solidifies single crystals of silicon and other materials.
Floating-body effect
The floating-body effect is a set of electrical phenomena in silicon-on-insulator transistors arising from the isolated body, causing kink and history effects while enabling capacitor-less 1T DRAM cells.
Floating-gate MOSFET
A floating-gate MOSFET is a transistor whose electrically isolated gate stores charge without power, making it the memory cell of EPROM, EEPROM, and flash memory.
Floating-Harbor syndrome
Floating-Harbor syndrome (FHS, FLHS, OMIM 136140): rare autosomal dominant disorder from truncating SRCAP exon 33/34 mutations, causing short stature, delayed bone age, expressive language delay, and distinctive triangular face with bulbous nose.
Floating-point arithmetic
Floating-point arithmetic is the method computers use to approximate real numbers as significand times base to an exponent, governed by the IEEE 754-2019 standard and subject to rounding error.
Floating-point unit
A floating-point unit (FPU) is the part of a processor that performs arithmetic on real numbers, found in microcontrollers, phone and PC processors, and modern GPUs.
Floatplane
A floatplane is a seaplane with a conventional landplane fuselage supported on separate floats, or pontoons, in place of wheels; with retractable gear it becomes an amphibian.
Flobots
Flobots are an alternative hip hop band from Denver, Colorado, formed around Jamie Laurie (Jonny 5) and Brer Rabbit; known for the 2008 hit "Handlebars", albums Fight with Tools and Survival Story, and the nonprofit Youth on Record.
Floby
Floby is the stage name of Florent Belemgnegré, a Burkinabè pop singer-songwriter who has been a central figure of Burkinabè urban pop since his first album in 2006.
Flocculation
Flocculation is the process in which small suspended particles in a liquid are joined into larger aggregates, called flocs, big enough to settle or be filtered out.
Flocculation Tests
Flocculation tests are serological precipitin assays in which antigen-antibody complexes form visible clumps over a narrow antigen-antibody ratio. Key examples: VDRL and RPR syphilis tests and the Ramon Lf test for toxoid vaccines.
Flocculin 11 domain
Flocculin 11 domain (Flo11 domain, Pfam PF10182): the N-terminal homophilic adhesion domain of yeast Flo11p/Muc1p, a fibronectin type III-like fold with aromatic bands, distinct from PA14 flocculin domains.
Flock (satellite constellation)
A Flock is a group of Dove CubeSat imaging satellites launched together by Planet Labs, adding capacity to its PlanetScope constellation, which images nearly all landmass daily.
Flock Around
Flock Around is a 2026 multiplayer birdwatching photography game by Friend Shaped Games and Outersloth, released April 24, 2026 on Steam for $4.99. Up to 10 players photograph birds that flee from proximity chat noise; distinct from Flock (2024) and Flock! (2009).