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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.

   "The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine..."

2. 2
   a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second. wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

billion floating point operations per secondgflops

Example

More examples

"The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine..."

Etymology

From giga- + flop.

Related phrases

floating point operation

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