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FLOPS

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-000449

An abbreviation for Floating-point Operations Per Second, a measure of a computer's performance, specifically its ability to perform calculations involving real numbers. It quantifies the number of floating-point arithmetic operations a processor can execute in one second. Supercomputers are often rated in teraFLOPS or petaFLOPS.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-000449
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectTechnical
Record as JSON 
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  "definition": "An abbreviation for Floating-point Operations Per Second, a measure of a computer's performance, specifically its ability to perform calculations involving real numbers. It quantifies the number of floating-point arithmetic operations a processor can execute in one second. Supercomputers are often rated in teraFLOPS or petaFLOPS.",
  "subject": "Technical",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/flops/"
}

Record 492 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.