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gigaflop

gigaflop noun: a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.

Noun

gigaflop (plural gigaflops)

  1. A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.
    • The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker

gigaflop meaning in Marathi

gigaflop in Marathi

one billion FLOPS
गिगाफ्लॉप gigāphlŏp

Forms of gigaflop

pluralgigaflops

Origin of gigaflop

From giga- + flop.

Questions about gigaflop

What does gigaflop mean?
Gigaflop means a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.
What is gigaflop in Marathi?
Gigaflop in Marathi is गिगाफ्लॉप (gigāphlŏp). See Gigaflop meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is gigaflop?
Gigaflop is a noun.
What is the plural of gigaflop?
The plural of gigaflop is gigaflops.

Words near gigaflop in the dictionary

  1. gigaelectronvolts
  2. gigafactories
  3. gigafactory
  4. gigafire
  5. gigafires
  6. gigaflop
  7. gigaflops
  8. gigagauss
  9. gigagram
  10. gigagramme
  11. gigagrammes

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