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floating-point units

floating-point units is the plural of floating-point unit.

Meaning of floating-point unit

Noun

floating-point unit (plural floating-point units)

  1. A microprocessor that performs floating-point arithmetic. In older models of computer the FPU was not integrated into the central processing unit, but rather as a coprocessor if included at all.

Questions about floating-point units

What is floating-point units the plural of?
Floating-point units is the plural of floating-point unit.

Words near floating-point units in the dictionary

  1. floating-point number
  2. floating-point numbers
  3. floating-point operation
  4. floating-point operations
  5. floating-point unit
  6. floating-point units
  7. floatingheart
  8. floatinghearts
  9. floatingly
  10. floatings
  11. floatless

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