gigaflop
English
Etymology
Noun
gigaflop (plural gigaflops)
- (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...
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":
Translations
one billion FLOPS
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
gigaflop m (plural gigaflops)
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English gigaflop.
Noun
gigaflop m (invariable)
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