flops

[ flops ]

nounComputers.
  1. a measure of computer speed, equal to the number of floating-point operations the computer can perform per second (used especially in combination with mega-, giga-, tera-).

Origin of flops

1
First recorded in 1985–90; shortening of fl(oating-point) op(erations per) s(econd)

Words Nearby flops

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How to use flops in a sentence

  • In the loft a boy learns to turn flip-flops, and with a lariat rope he can make a trapeze.

    Bill's School and Mine | William Suddards Franklin
  • An, anyow, wed be better down below an safer out o reach o any shell that flops in while were ere, said another.

    Grapes of wrath | Boyd Cable
  • She lay back in the weak sun with her eyes closed behind her shades, her toes wiggling in her flip-flops.

    Little Brother | Cory Doctorow
  • Then I begun to reel a bit 'n' look faintin'-like, 'n' purty soon I flops right on the floor as ef I was dead.

    Tramping with Tramps | Josiah Flynt
  • If I move her from her place, she flops and sprawls like a half-filled water bottle over the new supporting plane.

    The Life of the Fly | J. Henri Fabre

British Dictionary definitions for flops

flops

n acronym for
  1. floating-point operations per second: used as a measure of computer processing power (in combination with a prefix): megaflops; gigaflops

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