gigaflop

American

[gi-guh-flahp, ji-] / ˈgɪ gəˌflɑp, ˈdʒɪ- /

noun

Computers, Mathematics. one billion flops.

gigaflop British

/ ˈɡaɪɡəˌflɒp, ˈɡɪɡəˌflɒp /

noun

computing a measure of processing speed, consisting of a thousand million floating-point operations a second

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gigaflop Scientific

/ gĭg′ə-flŏp′ /

A measure of computing speed equal to one billion floating-point operations per second.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

gigaflops

plural

Etymology

Origin of gigaflop

C20: from _giga- + flo ( ating ) p ( oint )

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gigaflops

But that computer uses more than twice as much energy as Tsubame KFC to do the same number of calculations — 4.5 gigaflops per watt for the Tsubame KFC, compared with 1.9 gigaflops per watt.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2014

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