Flops meaning

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A measure of the speed of a computer in operations per second, especially arithmetic operations involving floating-point numbers. Often used in combination.

Gigaflops; teraflop.

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A unit for measuring the number of floating-point operations that a computer can perform in a second.

Megaflops, gigaflops.

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(FLoating point Operations Per Second) The measurement of floating point calculations. For example, 100 megaFLOPS (MFLOPS) is 100 million floating point operations per second. See IOPS, instructions per second and space/time.Name Number of FLOPS megaFLOPS million teraFLOPS trillion petaFLOPS quadrillion exaFLOPS quintillion.
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Plural form of flop.
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Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flop.
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(computing) Floating point operations per second.
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Origin of flops

  • f(loating-)p(oint) o(perations) p(er) s(econd) Variant flop back-formation from flops
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Flops Sentence Examples

  • Amy Jo Gladstone's celebrity fan base reads like the inside of a weekly gossip magazine: Christina Applegate and Teri Hatcher are both devotees of the lineup of cushioned, cozy slides, flip flops and scuffs.

  • Beyond helping women find bridal flip flops and unique wedding favors, catalogs can also outfit the entire wedding journey, from offering engagement announcements to bridal shower games to wedding party gifts.

  • The names of the expensive flops may not trip off the tongue, but there have been plenty.

  • Round and round until he flops in a messy heap, giving a new meaning to the word crushed velour.

  • Bald and overweight, Carl dresses casually in a stained wifebeater and sweats, while sporting a gold chain and green flip flops.

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