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MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

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)

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