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exaflop

exaflop noun: 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.

Noun

exaflop (plural exaflops)

  1. 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.
    • The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times

Forms of exaflop

pluralexaflops

Origin of exaflop

From exa- + FLOP.

Questions about exaflop

What does exaflop mean?
Exaflop means 10¹⁸ floating-point operations per second.
What part of speech is exaflop?
Exaflop is a noun.
What is the plural of exaflop?
The plural of exaflop is exaflops.

Words near exaflop in the dictionary

  1. exacuating
  2. exaeresis
  3. exaerobic
  4. exafference
  5. exafferent
  6. exaflop
  7. exaflops
  8. EXAFS
  9. exagerate
  10. exageration
  11. exaggerable

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