Megaflops
[meg-uh-flops] /ˈmɛg əˌflɒps/
noun
1.
a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
unit
One million floating-point operations per second. A common unit of measurement of performance of computers used for numerical work.
(2000-08-03)
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