English Explanatory Dictionary

petaflop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:
  2. a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
  3. 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.

Pronunciation

/ˈpɛtəflɒp/ /ˈpɛtəflɑp/

Word forms

petaflop petaflops

Etymology

From peta- + flop.

Translations

Finnish: petaflops Finnish: biljardi laskutoimitusta sekunnissa Polish: petaflops Russian: петафло́пс
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