noun
- A unit of computing speed equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
Usage: technical; computing; plural form; singular is megaflop
Examples
- The supercomputer achieved a performance of 500 megaflops in the benchmark test.
- Early personal computers operated at speeds measured in megaflops.
- Scientists used a system capable of 1,000 megaflops to process the climate data.
- The processor's megaflops rating improved significantly with each new generation.