Minifloatとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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).

Further reading

• minifloat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia