gigaflop

gigaflop

English

Etymology

giga- +‎ flop.

Noun

gigaflop (plural gigaflops)

1. (computing) A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second.
   • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":

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

Translations

one billion FLOPS

Portuguese: gigaflop m

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French

Noun

gigaflop m (plural gigaflops)

1. (computing) gigaflop

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English gigaflop.

Noun

gigaflop m (invariable)

1. gigaflop