floating-point operation

1. 1.

   an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

   “this computer can perform a million flops per second”

   Synonymsflop

   Broadercomputer operation

Questions about floating-point operation

What does floating-point operation mean?

floating-point operation means "an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers".

What is another word for floating-point operation?

Close synonyms include flop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is floating-point operation a common word?

floating-point operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.