noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)
2. 2
   A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure. informal
3. 3
   (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

mflopmillion floating point operations per second

Etymology

Etymology 1

Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

Etymology 2

From mega- + flop.

Related phrases

floating point operation

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