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floater
Found in thesaurus: certificate of indebtedness, poor person, rover, wanderer, employee, elector, bather, object, insurance policy, insurance
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floater
n.
person or thing that floats; wanderer; one whose vote can be bought; one who does not belong to a particular political party
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Floater
Floaters are deposits of various size, shape, consistency, refractive index, and motility within the eye's vitreous humour, which is normally transparent. At a young age, the vitreous is transparent, but as one ages, imperfections gradually develop. The common type of floater, which is present in most persons' eyes, is due to degenerative changes of the vitreous humour. The perception of floaters is known as myodesopsia, or less commonly as myodaeopsia, myiodeopsia, myiodesopsia. They are also called Muscae volitantes (Latin: "flying flies"), or mouches volantes (from the French). Floaters are visible because of the shadows they cast on the retina or refraction of the light that passes through them, and can appear alone or together with several others in one's visual field. They may appear as spots, threads, or fragments of cobwebs, which float slowly before the observer's eyes. As these objects exist within the eye itself, they are not optical illusions but are entoptic phenomena.
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floater
Noun
1. spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
(synonym) musca volitans, muscae volitantes, spots
(hypernym) symptom
2. a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
(hypernym) debt instrument, certificate of indebtedness
3. a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
(synonym) vagrant, drifter, vagabond
(hypernym) wanderer, roamer, rover, bird of passage
(hyponym) beachcomber
4. an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
(hypernym) employee
5. a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
(hypernym) voter, elector
6. a swimmer who floats in the water
(hypernym) swimmer, natator, bather
(derivation) float, swim
7. an object that floats or is capable of floating
(hypernym) object, physical object
(hyponym) iceberg, berg
(derivation) float, swim
8. an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
(synonym) floating policy
(hypernym) policy, insurance policy, insurance
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Floater
A type of bond in which the bond's interest rate varies with the interest rate of another debt instrument e.g. a bond that has the interest rate of the Treasury bill + .25%.
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Floater
Driver without a steady job. (ATA1)
