gigaflop
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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 Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
- The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine...
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gigaflop m (plural gigaflops)
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Borrowed from English gigaflop.
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gigaflop m (invariable)