floor

Definitions

• The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.
• Ground (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground).
• The lower inside surface of a hollow space.
• A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.
• The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.
• A storey/story of a building.
• In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.
• Hence, the right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.
• (nautical) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
• (mining) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
• (mining) A horizontal, flat ore body.
• (mathematics) The largest integer less than or equal to a given number.
• (gymnastics) An event performed on a floor-like carpeted surface.
• (gymnastics) A floor-like carpeted surface for performing gymnastic movements.
• (finance) A lower limit on the interest rate payable on an otherwise variable-rate loan, used by lenders to defend against falls in interest rates. Opposite of a cap.
• A dance floor.
• The area in which business is conducted at a convention or exhibition