What does "megaflop" mean?

megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)

What is a synonym for "megaflop"?

Common synonyms include: mflop, million floating point operations per second.

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Noun

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

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.