Meanings
megaflop1
megaflop2
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, one megaflops is a million floating point operations per second
Similar
MFLOPmillion floating point operations per second
Broader
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
megaflop · noun
Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.
Full word history & related roots →megaflop · noun
- Proto-Indo-European*méǵh₂s
- Proto-Hellenic*mégas
- Ancient Greekμέγᾰς (mégăs)
- Englishmega-
- Englishflop
- Englishmegaflop
Translations
Finnish megaflops, miljoona laskutoimitusta sekunnissa
- megaflopsone million FLOPS
- miljoona laskutoimitusta sekunnissaone million FLOPS
French mégaflop
- mégaflopone million FLOPS
Portuguese megaflop
- megaflopone million FLOPS
Russian мегафло́пс
- мегафло́пс (megaflóps)one million FLOPS
Cite this entry
APA
megaflop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megaflop
MLA
“megaflop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megaflop. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “megaflop,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/megaflop.
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