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An example of a flooring job
An example of a flooring job

Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor. It is usually used to mean parquetry, but it can also refer to carpets, laminate flooring, raised flooring, and linoleum. The most popular type of flooring is hardwood flooring, with an increasing popularity of bamboo floors. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 1446 KB) Konrad Kociszewski, http://www. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1944x2592, 1446 KB) Konrad Kociszewski, http://www. ... A hardwood floor (parquetry) is a popular feature in many houses. ... Parquetry floor. ... A carpet is any loom-woven, felted textile or grass floor covering. ... Pergo flooring project Laminate flooring is a laminate flooring material made to look like wood flooring, but made up of either synthetic materials or of synthetic materials combined with natural ingredients and covered with a decorative applique. ... Raised flooring refers to a type of flooring that is found usually in data centers and telecommunications environments. ... A linoleum kitchen floor Linoleum is a floor covering made from solidified linseed oil (linoxyn) in combination with wood flour or cork dust over a burlap or canvas backing. ... Beech is a typical temperate zone hardwood The term hardwood designates wood from angiosperm trees. ... Bamboo floors are manufactured from the bamboo plant. ...


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Floor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (359 words)
In most of Europe, and thus in British and Commonwealth usage, the floor at the ground level is the ground floor, and the floor above is the first floor, which maintains the continental European use dating from the days of the construction of palaces.
For example, in French, the term for the ground floor is rez de chaussée.
The principal floor is the story which contains the chief apartments, whether on the ground floor or the floor above; in Italy they are always on the latter and known as the piano nobile.
CLHS: Function FLOOR, FFLOOR, CEILING, FCEILING... (401 words)
quotient---for floor, ceiling, truncate, and round: an integer; for ffloor, fceiling, ftruncate, and fround: a float.
floor and ffloor produce a quotient that has been truncated toward negative infinity; that is, the quotient represents the largest mathematical integer that is not larger than the mathematical quotient.
(where function is any of one of floor, ceiling, ffloor, fceiling, truncate, round, ftruncate, and fround) return the same first value, but they return different remainders as the second value.
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