Floating vegetation of C. papyrus had caused blockages in the Sudd swamps in a number of occasions between 1879 and 1900, when the plants were torn out by increased floods.

File: Pheasant-tailed Jacanas ( Non-breeding ) at Purabasthali I IMG 1569. jpg | Landing ( in non-breeding plumage ) on Floating vegetation at Purbasthali in Bardhaman District of West Bengal, India.

File: Pheasant-tailed Jacanas ( Non-breeding ) at Purabasthali I2 IMG 1575. jpg | Resting ( in non-breeding plumage ) on Floating vegetation at Purbasthali in Bardhaman District of West Bengal, India.

Loktak Lake, the largest freshwater ( sweet ) lake in northeast India, also called the only Floating lake in the world due to the floating phumdis ( heterogeneous mass of vegetation, soil, and organic matters at various stages of decomposition ) on it, is located near Moirang in Manipur state, India.

* Floating Island, a mat of decaying roots and vegetation floating on a lake

Floating Point is an album by John McLaughlin, released in 2008 through the record label Abstract Logix.

*" The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club " is included in the short story collection A Hole in Space

Floating point data is similarly packed into a word and handled by library.

While each convention is run separately by the local committee, an informal and self-selected group of volunteers constitute the " Permanent Floating Worldcon Committee " who volunteer for many Worldcons in different years ; this group offers a measure of institutional continuity to otherwise disparate legal organizations.

This is often supported in Floating Point Hardware called FPUs.

Computers operate on a single Floating point number that is essentially constant from each input pixel.

Floating point operations on a signaling NaN ( sNaN ) signal an invalid operation exception, the default exception action is then the same as for qNaN operands and they produce a qNaN if producing a floating point result.

* Floating rate notes ( FRNs, floaters ) have a variable coupon that is linked to a reference rate of interest, such as LIBOR or Euribor.

She swore an oath by the Styx that the Harpies would no longer harangue Phineus, and the Boreads then turned back to return to the Argonauts ; it is for this reason, according to Apollonius, that the " Floating Islands " are now called the Strophades, the " Turning Islands ".

" Floating car " or " probe " data collection is a set of relatively low-cost methods for obtaining travel time and speed data for vehicles traveling along streets, highways, freeways, and other transportation routes.

Floating in front of Watchtower's window, she says a tearful goodbye to Clark, who does not know she's there, and puts on the Legion ring, disappearing into a purple light and into a time and place the audience is never shown.

The 54th and last chapter " The Floating Bridge of Dreams " is sometimes argued to be a separate part from the Uji part by modern scholars.

From Bath to Netham Lock where it divides into the New Cut and the Floating Harbour is.

Netham Lock is the point at Netham in Bristol at which boats from the River Avon, gain access to Bristol's Floating Harbour.

The original course is held at a constant level by lock gates ( designed by Jessop ) and is known as the Floating Harbour.

The Floating Harbour is protected by a 1870s replacement for Jessop's locks.

As a result of this, the Floating Harbour is one of the more successful pieces of dockland regeneration, with much of the dockside now occupied by residential, office and cultural premises, and the water area heavily used by leisure craft.

In Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic attempts to find the Chaos Emeralds hidden on the Floating Island after crashing Robotnik's Death Egg into a volcano, while Knuckles is equally determined to stop him by any means necessary.

Floating point DSP's may be invaluable in applications where a wide dynamic range is required.

The medieval Islamic philosopher Avicenna, whilst imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, wrote his famous isolated-but-awake " Floating Man " sensory deprivation thought experiment to explore the ideas of human self-awareness and the substantiality of the soul ; his hypothesis being that it is through intelligence, particularly the active intellect, that God communicates truth to the human mind or conscience.

His work Ukigumo ( Floating Clouds, 1887 ) is widely hailed as Japan's first modern novel.

The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain's largest oil paintings ; it depicts the defeat of the floating batteries at Gibraltar during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.

Mainframe is divided into six sectors ( moving clockwise ): Baudway, Kits, Floating Point Park, Beverly Hills, Wall Street, and Ghetty Prime ( also called G-Prime ).

The GWR built a goods shed on the north side of the station adjacent to the Floating Harbour, with a small dock for transhipment of goods to barges ( though not to sea-going ships as the wharf was upstream of Bristol Bridge ).

These hydrophytes have small roots and are only found in slow-moving water with rich-nutrient level water Floating aquatic plants are a food resource for avian species.

Ice-marginal stream beds are in evidence in the small, narrow valleys where Floating Island Lake and Phantom Lake are found.

However this name came from Floating idli ( small idlis floating on sambar, rasam or butter milk ).

Floating line, such as polypropylene, although cheap, can foul the propellers of boats and is an entanglement hazard to divers if it is allowed to accumulate near the surface.

Floating point numbers are represented as IEEE floating point numbers and the endianness is assumed to be little endian although this is not stated in documentation.

Finally, although many windows default to tiling, any window can be changed to a Floating mode and dialog boxes default to it.

Floating beds of papyrus may close up the channels to a width allowing only dugout canoes to pass.

Copley had also painted several large and heroic depictions of disasters at sea which Géricault may have known from prints: Watson and the Shark ( 1778 ), in which a black man is central to the action, and which, like The Raft of the Medusa, concentrated on the actors of the drama rather than the seascape ; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 ( 1791 ), which was an influence on both the style and subject matter of Géricault's work ; and Scene of a Shipwreck ( 1790s ), which has a strikingly similar composition.

Floating bladderworts in cold temperate zones such as the UK and Siberia can produce winter buds called turions at the extremities of their stems: as the autumnal light fails and growth slows down, the main plant may rot away or be killed by freezing conditions, but the turions will separate and sink to the bottom of the pond to rest beneath the coming ice until the spring, when they will return to the surface and resume growth.

A Deskbar can either be a fixed deskbar, which sits in the Windows Taskbar, or a Floating Deskbar, which may be positioned anywhere on the desktop.

Floating city may refer to:

Floating charges take effect in equity only, and consequently are defeated by a bona fide purchaser for value without notice of any asset caught by them.