MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND
Dictionary entry overview: What does million instructions per second mean? • MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND (noun)
The noun MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND has 1 sense:
1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)
Familiarity information: MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND (noun)
Meaning:
(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
million instructions per second; MIPS
Context example:
4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second
Hypernyms ("million instructions per second" is a kind of...):
unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
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