Mips

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of million instructions per second. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, plural, plural-only
  2. 2
    plural of MIP form-of, plural
  3. 3
    (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system) wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages, a RISC-style instruction set architecture. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

All synonyms
million instructions per second

Etymology

Analyzable as M- (“mega-, 10⁶x”) + IPS

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