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megaflop

megaflop noun: megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second).

Noun (1)

megaflop (plural megaflops)

  1. megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)

Noun (2)

megaflop (plural megaflops)

  1. (informal) A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure.

Forms of megaflop

pluralmegaflops

Origin of megaflop

Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

From mega- + flop.

Questions about megaflop

What does megaflop mean?
Megaflop means megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second).
What part of speech is megaflop?
Megaflop is a noun.
What is the plural of megaflop?
The plural of megaflop is megaflops.

Words near megaflop in the dictionary

  1. megafishes
  2. megaflare
  3. megaflares
  4. megaflood
  5. megafloods
  6. megaflop
  7. megaflops
  8. megaflora
  9. megafloral
  10. megafloras
  11. megafoot

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