million instructions per second

Noun
  1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system) (synset 113628859)
    "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second"
    referred to in: computer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures
    is a type of: unit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
    same as: mips

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