single precision

noun

, Computers.

1. using one word rather than two or more to represent a number.

Example Sentences

The rules define a supercomputer as any system with 100 or more petaflops of so-called double precision computing power, or 200-plus petaflops of single precision computing power, within a 41,600 cubic feet area.

From Reuters

NVIDIA’s first announcement was the announcement of the “Titan X”, which is the company’s fastest GPU to date with 7 Teraflops of theoretical single precision compute capability and a whopping 12GB of memory.

From Forbes