megaflop

Questions about megaflop

What does megaflop mean?

megaflop means "(computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system".

How many syllables are in megaflop?

megaflop has 3 syllables and divides as me-ga-flop under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for megaflop?

Close synonyms include MFLOP, million floating point operations per second. 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 megaflop a common word?

megaflop 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.