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petaflop.

Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈpɛtəflɒp/Received-Pronunciation/ˈpɛtəflɑp/US
  1. Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer: a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.

  2. Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer: 1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.

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From peta- + flop.

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