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afloat: Completely waterborne.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

fire-float: a harbor craft fitted with fire pumps and other fire-fighting apparatus for assisting vessels and protecting warehouses,piers etc.
Category: Transport

float: a buoyant unit used to give lift or to mark the position of a net,or both
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

float: the number of freely traded shares in the hands of the public
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

float: logs fastened together to form a small raft,as in a storage pond
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

float: a length of yarn on the surface of a fabric between adjacent intersections.This will correspond to the number of threads over or under which the intersecting yarn passes in a woven structure
Category: Various industries and crafts

float: an element of document,normally a keep,that is to appear at some specified position relative to the type area on whatever page contains it(e.g.the middle of a column,the bottom of a page),whose precise position relative to the text cannot be determined until pagination is performed
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

float: buoyant structure used in devices for controlling the level of a liquid
Category: Transport

float: a length of yarn not received by a needle and connecting two loops of nonconsecutive courses
Category: Various industries and crafts

float: a pattern thread traversed over more than one wale and not tied to the intermediate warp thread or threads
Category: Various industries and crafts

float: timelag which often occurs in the cheque collection process
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

float: an enclosed gimbal assembly housing the spin motor and other components such as the pickoff and torquer.This assembly is immersed in a fluid,usually at the condition of neutral buoyancy
Category: Transport

float: checks, drafts, etc., in the process of collection
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

float: ..the value of checks which have been presented at a first bank for collection, but are still in transit and not yet presented at the bank against which they are drawn.
Category: Financial affairs - taxation - customs

float: somme remise chaque matin, au livreur, afin qu`il ait de la monnaie à remettre aux clients.
Category: Commerce - movement of goods

float: a measure of timber equal to 18 loads
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

float: a power-driven device for..spreading concrete or mortar/, rotary for use on granolithic floors or vibratory for road.
Category: Building industry

float-free: Craft whose installation and stowage are intended to permit them to clear a sinking vessel and float to the surface automatically.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

float-type: fuel-metering device for maintaining a constant fuel metering pressure or head
Category: Mechanical engineering

float-type: expansion valve operated by a change in liquid level
Category: Mechanical engineering

float-zone: crystal-growing method in which no crucible is used,the molten region being supported by surface tension or electromagnetic levitation,or by a combination of these mechanisms
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

float-zone: semiconductor crystal,or part of a crystal,produced by the float-zone method and not modified by subsequent melting
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

floatability: The ability of a vessel or a body to float on the surface of a liquid without sinking.
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

floated: a gyroscope in which the rotor is suspended in a liquid
Category: Various industries and crafts

floated: a gyroscope in which the rotor is suspended in a liquid
Category: Transport

floated: of timber floated in clear water and hence free from discoloration
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

floater: a member,generally one under compression,terminating in a joint that does not rest on any support
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

floater: piece of refractory which floats on the surface of the glass in a tank furnace,placed across the width of the furnace
Category: Various industries and crafts

floater: a species of tree whose timber,when freshly felled,floats in water
Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries

floater: a worker without regular fixed duties who is available for assignment wherever extra help is needed....--personne qui surveille l`inventaire de plusieurs magasins
Category: Labour

floating: high-impedance state of three state logic (1); denoting a circuit or device that is not connected to any source of potential (2)
Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers)

floating: the condition where a common mode voltage exists between an earth ground and the instrument or circuit of interest
Category: Electrical engineering and energy

floating: change in colour characterized by the presence of coloured streaks on the surface of the film
Category: Iron and steel industries

floating: . After the concrete has been struck-off and consolidated, it shall be further smoothed, trued, and consolidated by means of a longitudinal float
Category: Building industry

floating-carrier: a system of amplitude modulation in which the carrier level is varied in proportion to the short-term mean amplitude of the modulating signal so that the modulation factor is approximately constant
Category: News-systems and communications

sink-float: separation of sinking heavy from light floating mineral particles in fluid of intermediate density
Category: Mining

sink-float: wet separation of materials with different densities by means of a liquid whose density is between the density of the different materials; cf. flotation
Category: Technical and industry in general

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