minifloat

English

Etymology

    From mini- +‎ float.

    Noun

    minifloat (plural minifloats)

    1. A small float (an elaborately decorated vehicle in a parade or pageant).
      • 2007, Jack Cashill, What's the Matter With California? Cultural Rumbles From the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking, New York, N.Y.: Threshold Editions, →ISBN, page 166:
        People of color were not the only ones missing. Despite the paradelike atmosphere, there was not a child in sight. The naked people scare parents away, as do the occasionally obscene banners and minifloats.
    2. (computing) 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).

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