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teraflops

teraflops is the plural of teraflop.

Meaning of teraflop

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

Questions about teraflops

What is teraflops the plural of?
Teraflops is the plural of teraflop.

Words near teraflops in the dictionary

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

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