Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

petaflop

/ˈpɛtəflɑp/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables: petaflop
IPA: /ˈpɛtəflɑp/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:

noun

Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:

Example Sentences

"...a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward."
"First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]"

Etymology

From peta- + flop.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈpɛtəflɑp/
British English: /ˈpɛtəflɒp/

Inflected Forms

petaflops (plural)

Synonyms

pflops

Questions

How do you pronounce petaflop?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɛtəflɑp/.
What does petaflop mean?: Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:
Where does petaflop come from?: From peta- + flop.

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