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gigaflops

gigaflops is the plural of gigaflop.

Meaning of gigaflop

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

Questions about gigaflops

What is gigaflops the plural of?
Gigaflops is the plural of gigaflop.

Words near gigaflops in the dictionary

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

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