Meanings
nounzettaflop (plural zettaflops)
plural zettaflops
- computing10²¹ floating-point operations per second.
The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop.
2008 June 9, John Markoff, “Military Supercomputer Sets Record”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(computer science) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one sextillion floating-point operations a second.
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ZFLOPS
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zettaflop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zettaflop
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“zettaflop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zettaflop. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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