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Word: Gigaflop
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
1970s: back-formation from gigaflops(see giga-, -flop)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈɡɪɡəflɒp
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a unit of computing speed equal to one thousand million floating-point operations per second
Short Definition:unit of computing speed equal to one thousand million floating-point operations per second
Examples:- the Cray supercomputer's goal was 16 gigaflops
- several gigaflop computers are now being designed
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