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say it: FLOH-tur
floater is a noun meaning "spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens". It carries 8 recorded senses.
spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens
“floaters seem to drift through the field of vision”
a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills)
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed
a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election
a swimmer who floats in the water
an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for floater come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.