Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

floating-point operation

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English

Syllables: float-ing--point -op-er-a-tion
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

22

Letters

8

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of floating point operation.

Example Sentences

"The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8."

Inflected Forms

floating-point operations (plural)

Synonyms

flop

Questions

What does floating-point operation mean?: Alternative form of floating point operation.

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