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teraflop

ter·a·flop [ térrə flòp ] (plural ter·a·flops)


noun 
Definition:
 
measure of computer speed: one trillion floating-point operations per second, a measure of computer speed

[Late 20th century. <tera- + acronym <floating-point operations per second]
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