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Definition of Megaflop
1. Noun. (computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system.
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
Generic synonyms: Unit, Unit Of Measurement
Group relationships: Teraflop, Trillion Floating Point Operations Per Second
Definition of Megaflop
1. Noun. (computing) a measure of the speed of a computer; one million floating point operations per second. ¹
2. Noun. (informal) A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Megaflop
1. a measure of computing speed [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaflop
Literary usage of Megaflop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aerospace Plane Technology: Research and Development in Japan and Australia (1994)
"I 1986 the Institute acquired a Fijitsu VP 200 supercomputer with a 570-megaflop
processing rate and 256 megabytes of memory. In 1987 the Institute acquired ..."
2. The Creative Society of the 21st Century by OECD Forum for the Future (2000)
"... in heavy computing: the next leap forward in the megaflop, gigaflop, teraflop
calculating performance of a supercomputer will not transform your life; ..."
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