FLOATING-POINT OPERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does floating-point operation mean? 

• FLOATING-POINT OPERATION (noun)
  The noun FLOATING-POINT OPERATION has 1 sense:

1. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

  Familiarity information: FLOATING-POINT OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLOATING-POINT OPERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

floating-point operation; flop

Context example:

this computer can perform a million flops per second

Hypernyms ("floating-point operation" is a kind of...):

computer operation; machine operation (an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform)