MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

Example:

4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second

Synonyms:

million instructions per second; MIPS

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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)