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TERAFLOP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teraflop mean? 

TERAFLOP (noun)
  The noun TERAFLOP has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: TERAFLOP used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TERAFLOP (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:

teraflop; trillion floating point operations per second

Hypernyms ("teraflop" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "teraflop"):

megaflop; MFLOP; million floating point operations per second ((computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system)

Domain category:

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


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