gigaflop

English

Etymology

giga- +‎ flop.

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...

Translations

one billion FLOPS

Portuguese: gigaflop m

French

Noun

gigaflop m (plural gigaflops)

(computing) gigaflop

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English gigaflop.

Noun

gigaflop m (invariable)

gigaflop

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