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megaflop

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
megaflop
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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

noun

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

Informal

Etymology

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

Usage

Inflected Forms

megaflops (plural)

Phrases

box-office bomb

Frequently Paired Words

box-office bomb

Synonyms

mflop million floating point operations per second

Questions

What does megaflop mean?
megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)
Where does megaflop come from?
Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

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