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There are several meanings of float:

• an air-filled vessel such as a boat or ship floats on water;
• buoyancy
• float (parade), a decorated vehicle or platform used in a festive parade
• float (project management)
• float (money supply and banking)
• float (breakdancing move)
• float (horse-drawn) is a small, low-loading vehicle. Changing practises produced the electric milk float.
• floating currency
• valve float in an internal combustion engine
• floating exchange rate
• floating point, a datatype in computer science
• free float of company stock
• insurance (investable policyholder funds)
• floating (psychological phenomenon)
• root beer float: ice cream and root beer mixed together
• In computer typesetting environments such as HTML, wikitext or desktop publishing, "floating" describes the alignment of an element (such as an image or table) to the left or right while text wraps around it. In the following HTML example, a CSS rule selects the "caption" class and applies a "float" property to it:

<style type="text/css">
div.caption {
  float: right;
}
</style>

<div class="caption">
  <img src="IMAGE WOULD GO HERE">
  <p>Caption 1</p>
</div>
<p>Rest of the document; text flows around the captioned image.</p>

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