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MILLION INSTRUCTIONS PER SECOND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
