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flottant — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • buoyant adjective Able to float; having buoyancy.

Senses

flottant is used for these senses in English:

  • buoyant Having buoyancy; able to float.
  • floating-point number (computing) A real number held as a pair of integers, one representing the mantissa and the other representing the exponent. The base is normally 10, 16 or 256 depending on the computing system.

buoyant — full definition

  1. adjective Able to float; having buoyancy.
  2. adjective Cheerful, lively, and quick to recover from setbacks.

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