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float

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De l’anglais float.

noun

Verrerie Couche d'étain en fusion sur laquelle le verre flotté est déversé pour former une fine surface qui deviendra une vitre.
Anglicism Nombre à virgule flottante.

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floating-point number computing: real number held as a pair of integers, representing the mantissa and

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"float." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/fr/float. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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float. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/fr/float

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"float." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/fr/float.

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@misc{float_2026,
  title = {float},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/fr/float},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}