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Noun: gigaflop  'gi-gu,flóp
  1. (computing) a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second
    "The supercomputer's performance was measured in gigaflops";
    - billion floating point operations per second, GFLOPS

Derived forms: gigaflops

Type of: unit, unit of measurement

Part of: teraflop, trillion floating point operations per second

Encyclopedia: Gigaflop