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FPU

FPU is the initialism 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.

Forms of FPU

pluralFPUs

Questions about FPU

What is FPU the initialism of?
FPU is the initialism of floating-point unit.

Words near FPU in the dictionary

  1. fps
  2. FPSE
  3. FPSEs
  4. FPT
  5. FPTP
  6. FPU
  7. FPUs
  8. FPV
  9. FQ
  10. fqcies.
  11. fqcy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FPU (page history and authors); floating-point unit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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