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teraflop

UK/ˈtɛɹəflɒp/US/ˈtɛɹəfɫɑp/

teraflop noun: a unit of computing power equal to one trillion (10¹²) floating-point operations per second.

Noun

teraflop (plural teraflops)

  1. A unit of computing power equal to one trillion (10¹²) floating-point operations per second.
    • The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8. One such design for teraflop machine, by Monty...1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker

Forms of teraflop

pluralteraflops

Origin of teraflop

From tera- + flop.

Questions about teraflop

What does teraflop mean?
Teraflop means a unit of computing power equal to one trillion (10¹²) floating-point operations per second.
What part of speech is teraflop?
Teraflop is a noun.
How do you pronounce teraflop?
Teraflop is pronounced /ˈtɛɹəflɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of teraflop?
The plural of teraflop is teraflops.

Words near teraflop in the dictionary

  1. teraelectron volt
  2. teraelectron volts
  3. teraelectronvolt
  4. teraelectronvolts
  5. terafeature
  6. teraflop
  7. teraflops
  8. teraglin
  9. teraglins
  10. teragon
  11. teragons

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