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megaflop

noun

Etymology

Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

Definitions

  1. megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)

  2. A major flop

    A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for megaflop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA