FLOATING-POINT OPERATION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

Example:

this computer can perform a million flops per second

Synonyms:

floating-point operation; flop

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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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