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ulp¹

  • /ʌlp/ US, UK

Where it comes from

Imitative, or possibly a variant of gulp.

interjection

  1. The sound of a person gulping in fear. I sent her a text asking as nonchalantly as possible whether cows ever go for you. [...] The answer I got was, 'Occasionally they do, and they can be bloody scary.' Ulp.

    Similar: gulp

ulp²

  • /ʌlp/ US, UK

Where it comes from

Abbreviation of unit in the last place or unit of least precision, coined in 1960 by Canadian mathematician and computer scientist William Kahan (born 1933).

noun ulps

  1. The value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents, used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations. The basic concept of two vectors "agreeing to k ulps" (units in the last place) of each entry or of the largest entry allows us to express relationships among computed values and solutions at perturbed data.

ULP³

noun ULPs

  1. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of ubiquitin-like protein
  2. abbreviation Abbreviation of ultra-luminous pulsar
  3. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of unfair labor practice Settlement of an ULP charge which required the parties to reopen the existing collective bargaining agreement did not remove the collective bargaining agreement as a bar.

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noun value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents

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"ulp." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ulp. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

ulp. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ulp

Chicago

"ulp." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ulp.

BibTeX
@misc{ulp_2026,
  title = {ulp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ulp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}