free-float|ing

free-float|ing
free-float|ing «FREE FLOH tihng», adjective.
1. floating or moving without an attachment: »

free-floating grass, a free-floating astronaut.

2. not established; unfounded; unproven: »

a free-floating theory.

3. not bound or committed; independent: »

It was less a school now than a free-floating group of individuals (New Yorker).


Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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