Etymology

megaflop

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Today it means: megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second) Full definition →

English flop ← Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs) ← Proto-Hellenic *mégas
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megaflop · noun1

Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

megaflop · noun2

  1. Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
  2. Proto-Hellenic*mégas
  3. Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
  4. Englishmega-
  5. Englishflop
  6. English todaymegaflop

From mega- + flop.

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