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flops

 (flŏps) or flop (flŏp)
n. pl. flops
A measure of the speed of a computer in operations per second, especially arithmetic operations involving floating-point numbers. Often used in combination: gigaflops; teraflop.
[f(loating-)p(oint) o(perations) p(er) s(econd). Variant flop, back-formation from flops.]
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flops

or

FLOPS

n acronym for
(Computer Science) floating-point operations per second: used as a measure of computer processing power (in combination with a prefix): megaflops; gigaflops.
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flops

(flɒps)
n.
a measure of computer speed, equal to the number of floating-point operations the computer can perform per second.
[1985–90; fl(oating-point) op(erations per) s(econd)]
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If you must go flopping yourself down, flop in favour of your husband and child, and not in opposition to 'em.
He greatly disturbed that poor woman at intervals, by darting out of his sleeping closet, where he made his toilet, with a suppressed cry of "You are going to flop, mother.
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When he was gone my driver began to flop the reins about and whip the harness, by which I understood that I was to go on, which of course I did, glad that the stone was gone, but still in a good deal of pain.
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"Which wings must I flop first?" asked the cab-horse, undecidedly.
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Well, at last he could hardly flop his wings, he was so tuckered out.
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He stooped, and dipped his beak in the pond; he thought it was his beak, but, of course, it was only his nose, and, therefore, very little water came up, and that not so refreshing as usual, so next he tried a puddle, and he fell flop into it.
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"If I should flop my wings I believe I'd knock over the whole village!"
"Then don't flop them--please don't!" entreated the Captain.
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