Meaning & use

Teraflops

noun·Academic

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A unit of computing performance equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

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The new supercomputer can process over a hundred teraflops.

Modern gaming consoles now boast processing power measured in teraflops.

A note on using this word

"Tera-" denotes a trillion (10^12), while "FLOPS" stands for floating-point operations per second, a standard measure of computer speed.

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