Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tpu

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.32 in modern English

Syllables: tpu
IPA

5

Scrabble Score

3

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic; its applications include 3D printing.

Uncountable

noun

Initialism of Tensor Processing Unit, a circuit optimized for neural network machine learning.

Countable

Example Sentences

"The GPU and TPU computing resources were used to investigate the influence of hardware-supported quantization on performance of the DNNs."
"However, Anthropic also uses Google's custom AI accelerator chip—a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) called Trillium."

Usage

Inflected Forms

TPUs (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

CPU GPU

Questions

What does tpu mean?: Initialism of thermoplastic polyurethane, a type of plastic; its applications include 3D printing.

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