petaflop
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
A petaflop equals 1,000 trillion calculations per second, a number expressed as 10 to the power of 15.
From Barron's • Nov. 26, 2025
A petaflop is a measure of a computer's processing speed.
From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2022
But even China’s 93 petaflop machine is slower than the supercomputer that the U.S.,
From Slate • Sep. 18, 2017
Then, this October, another Chinese supercomputer, the Sunway Bluelight MPP, broke the petaflop barrier — a quadrillion calculations per second — putting it among the world’s 20 fastest computers.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2011
It was planned to run at sustained speeds of at least a thousand trillion operations a second, a measure known as a petaflop and a standard for speed that had long been sought.
From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2011
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
