English Explanatory Dictionary

megaflop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)
noun
  1. A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-megaflop.wav

Word forms

megaflop megaflops

Etymology

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

Related words

box-office bomb
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