FLOATING-POINT OPERATION
Dictionary entry overview: What does floating-point operation mean? • FLOATING-POINT OPERATION (noun)
The noun FLOATING-POINT OPERATION has 1 sense:
1. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
Familiarity information: FLOATING-POINT OPERATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FLOATING-POINT OPERATION (noun)
Meaning:
An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
floating-point operation; flop
Context example:
this computer can perform a million flops per second
Hypernyms ("floating-point operation" is a kind of...):
computer operation; machine operation (an elementary operation that a computer is designed and built to perform)
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