floating🔊

That floats or float.

Not fixed in position, opinion etc.; free to move or drift.

( or by extension any segment or feature) Present in the underlying phonological representation but not linked to an anchor on which it can surface.

(ing-form)

The motion of something that floats.

(in the plural) Material that floats in a liquid.

The spreading of plaster on the surface of walls.

(veterinary medicine) A veterinary dental procedure involving the filing down of sharp surfaces on a horse's teeth.