flops

[ flops ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Computers.

a measure of computer speed, equal to the number of floating-point operations the computer can perform per second (used especially in combination with mega-, giga-, tera- ).

flops

floating-point operations per second: used as a measure of computer processing power (in combination with a prefix)
gigaflops
megaflops

Origin of flops¹

First recorded in 1985–90; shortening of fl(oating-point) op(erations per) s(econd)

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