minifloat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small float (an elaborately decorated vehicle in a parade or pageant).
  2. A floating-point number represented with very few bits (such as 8 or 16, when a more common size would be 32 or 64 bits).

Word forms

minifloat minifloats

Etymology

From mini- + float.

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