MILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does million floating point operations per second mean? 

• MILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECOND (noun)
  The noun MILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECOND has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system

  Familiarity information: MILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLION FLOATING POINT OPERATIONS PER SECOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

megaflop; MFLOP; million floating point operations per second

Hypernyms ("million floating point operations per second" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Holonyms ("million floating point operations per second" is a part of...):

teraflop; trillion floating point operations per second ((computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system)