MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does million instructions per second mean? 

• MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND (noun)
  The noun MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

  Familiarity information: MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

million instructions per second; MIPS

Context example:

4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second

Hypernyms ("million instructions 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)