noun
FLOPS
noun
1
A measure of computing speed: the number of floating-point operations a computer can perform per second.
"The new chip can perform trillions of flops per second."
How to Use FLOPS
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA unit measuring how fast a computer can do calculations.
When to use it
Technical computing term, usually seen as megaflops, gigaflops, teraflops, etc.
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Etymology
An acronym for "floating-point operations per second."