Operation of a dc system with the battery, rectifier, and load all connected in parallel. The battery charger supplies the normal dc load plus any battery self-discharge current or recharge current required after a discharge. [T1.330-1997]

See conference floating.

A magnetic head floating on a layer of air away from the recording surface. Synonyms air-floating head, flying head. [ANSDIT]

Data compaction accomplished by using coefficients, a base, and exponents to specify the scale, range, or magnitude of numbers.
Note: An example of floating-point coding compaction is using
11
9. 8 × 106,
11
9. 8(6), or
11
9. 86 to represent 119,800,00
0. If the number is rounded to 120,000,000, it might be written as 1206 or 127 in… (Read More →)

In facsimile, the optical method of scanning in which the object is floodlighted and the scanning spot is defined by a masked portion of the illuminated area.

In a telephone network, nondeterministic routing in which a dialed number received at a switch is transmitted to all switches, i.e., flooded, in the area code directly connected to that switch; if the dialed number is not an affiliated subscriber at that switch, the number is then retransmitted to all directly connected switches, and then routed through the switch that… (Read More →)

Insertion of a large volume of data resulting in denial of service. [INFOSEC-99] Synonyms [in e-mail and forum postings] mail bombing, spamming; [in radio and wireline communications] flood-search routing, pilot-make-busy.

A substance surrounding the buffer tubes of a fiber-optic cable, to prevent water intrusion into the interstices in the event of a breach of the jacket. [FAA]

Synonym diskette.

Acronym for floating-point operations per second.
Note: For example, 15 Mflops equals 15 million floating-point arithmetic operations per second. [From Weik '89]