teraflops

[ ter-uh-flops ]

noun

1. a measure of computer speed, equal to one trillion floating-point operations per second.

Word History and Origins

Origin of teraflops¹

First recorded in 1985–90; tera- ( def ) + flops ( def )

Example Sentences

There’s also 78 teraflops for ray tracing and 320 teraflops for AI tasks.

From The Verge

The AI can clearly search at a zillion teraflops and come back with meaningful words.

From Washington Post

AMD revealed last week that it’s powering this new infotainment system in both the new Model S and Model X, with 10 teraflops of compute power.

From The Verge

It’s not that Democrats didn’t have the ability to harness teraflops of surveillance-based insights as reasons to reject Trumpian allies and enablers.

From New York Times

There’s a lesson in there somewhere about how an emotional connection isn’t made by an audiophile-approved sound system or a 4K TV or a new video game console and all of its teraflops.

From Los Angeles Times