Gigaflop

noun

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

Etymology

From giga- + flop.

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