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MIPS

DEFINITIONS OF: MIPS

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

“4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second”
Synonyms:
million instructions per second
Type of:
unit, unit of measurement
any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
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