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Noun: petaflop  'pe-tu,flóp
  1. (computing) a unit for measuring the speed of a computer system, equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations a second
    "The supercomputer reached 1 petaflop in benchmark tests";
    - PFLOPS

Derived forms: petaflops

Type of: unit, unit of measurement

Part of: EFLOPS, exaflop

Encyclopedia: Petaflop