floating-point operation, flop (noun)

an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers

"this computer can perform a million flops per second"

flop, dud, washout (noun)

someone who is unsuccessful

flop, bust, fizzle (noun)

a complete failure

"the play was a dismal flop"

flop, collapse (verb)

the act of throwing yourself down

"he landed on the bed with a great flop"

flop (verb)

fall loosely

"He flopped into a chair"

flop (verb)

fall suddenly and abruptly

fall through, fall flat, founder, flop (adverb)

fail utterly; collapse

"The project foundered"

flop (adverb)

with a flopping sound

"he tumbled flop into the mud"

right, flop (adverb)

exactly

"he fell flop on his face"

Flop

Flop was an early-1990s pop punk band from Seattle, Washington. The band formed in 1990, released recordings on the Frontier and Sony 550 record labels, and made a brief appearance in Doug Pray's motion picture documentary Hype!.

FLOP

In computing, floating point operations per second (FLOPS, flops or flop/s) is a measure of computer performance, useful in fields of scientific computations that require floating-point calculations. For such cases, it is a more accurate measure than measuring instructions per second.