Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

softfloat

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: soft-float
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

(especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them.

Etymology

From soft (as in software) + float (as in floating-point number).

Antonyms

hardfloat

Questions

What does softfloat mean?: (especially of a platform) Does not have hardware implementations of floating-point numbers and require software implementations (soft floats) to use them.
Where does softfloat come from?: From soft (as in software) + float (as in floating-point number).

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