million instructions per second

1. 1.

   (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

   “4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second”

   SynonymsMIPS

   Broaderunit of measurement

   computer science

Questions about million instructions per second

What does million instructions per second mean?

million instructions per second means "(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)".

What is another word for million instructions per second?

Close synonyms include MIPS. 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.