gigaflop

From giga- +‎ flop.

gigaflop (plural gigaflops)

1. (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...

• IPA^(key): /ʒi.ɡa.flɔp/

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gigaflop m (plural gigaflops)

1. (computing) gigaflop

Borrowed from English gigaflop.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi.ɡaˈflɔp/
• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Hyphenation: gi‧ga‧flòp

gigaflop m (invariable)

1. gigaflop