MIPS

/mɪps/
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Definitions of MIPS
  1. noun
    (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
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    type of:
    unit, unit of measurement
    any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange
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