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megaflop¹

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Back-formation of megaflops in the computing sense – the final ⟨s⟩ is not the plural suffix but stands for “second”.

noun megaflops

  1. megaflops (one million FLOPS, or floating point operations per second)

megaflop²

noun megaflops

  1. informal A major flop; a film or other production that is a great failure.

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noun one million FLOPS

Portuguêsmegaflop
Françaismégaflop
Русскиймегафло́пс megaflóps

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@misc{megaflop_2026,
  title = {megaflop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/megaflop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}