Etymology

gigaflop

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Today it means: A unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion (10⁹) floating point operations per second. Full definition →

English flop ← Ancient Greek γίγας (gígas)
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  1. Ancient GreekΓίγας (Gígas)
  2. Ancient Greekγίγας (gígas)
  3. Englishgiga-
  4. Englishflop
  5. English todaygigaflop

From giga- + flop.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.