Floor (disambiguation)

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Floor may refer to one of the following:

In buildings:

• Floor, the lower surface of a room; and the supportive subfloor, the layer which structurally provides the strength and support for the flooring above commonly miscalled 'the floor'.
• Storey, a level of a building
• Flooring, a type of floor covering for example wood flooring, tile flooring, vinyl flooring
• Floor (gymnastics), a specially prepared exercise surface
• Dance floor or Sprung floor for dancing

In mathematics, science and engineering:

• Floor and ceiling functions in mathematics and computer science

In geography and Earth sciences:

• Seabed, the bottom of the ocean

In economics and business:

• Interest rate cap and floor
• Floor trading, where traders meet at a trading floor to buy and sell
• Shop floor in retail or factory premises, where people work with machines or clients

Floor (legislative) and in public speaking:

• The generality of the house members, as opposed to committee
• The part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery
• In public speaking, such as a legislature or town hall meeting, the person currently allowed to speak is said to "have the floor"

A personal name:

• Floor, a Dutch given name for girls as well as boys, derived from the Latin florere, meaning "to be with flowers, to bloom".
  • Floor Jansen, a female symphonic metal singer
  • Floortje Meijners, a volleyball player
  • Floor Wibaut, a male politician
• Kabamba Floors, a South African rugby union footballer

Others:

• Floor (valley), the bottom of a valley
• Floor (poker) a reference to a floor person who runs a poker room and makes decisions on hands.
• Floor (band), a metal band from Florida
• The Floor, name under which the Danish rock band The Hitmakers were known in the period 1967–1968
• Floors Castle, Scotland
• Floor exercise, gymnastics routines with no equipment
• Floored (film), a documentary about the Chicago trading floors
• "FLOOR", a song by P-MODEL from the album Another Game