"megaflop" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: megaflops [plural]
Etymology: Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”. Etymology templates: {{m|en|megaflops}} megaflops Head templates: {{en-noun}} megaflop (plural megaflops)
  1. (computing) megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second) Categories (topical): Computing Translations (one million FLOPS): mégaflop [masculine] (French), megaflop [masculine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-megaflop-en-noun-ypYWbAtJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mega- Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 76 24 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mega-: 64 36 Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: megaflops [plural]
Etymology: mega- + flop Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mega|flop}} mega- + flop Head templates: {{en-noun}} megaflop (plural megaflops)
  1. (informal) A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure. Tags: informal Related terms: box-office bomb
    Sense id: en-megaflop-en-noun-I91F9oND
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for megaflop meaning in English (2.5kB)

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