(פ') ליפול בחבטה; לרפרף בכבדות; להפיל בחבטה; להיכשל (סלנג)

(ש"ע) חבטה; קול חבטה; כישלון חרוץ, "פלופ" (סלנג)

פלופס (FLOPS - Floating Point Operations Per Second) היא יחידת מידה לעוצמתם של מחשבים העוסקים בעיבודים עתירי חישוב, ובפרט עיבודים מדעיים, שבהם נעשה שימוש נרחב בפקודות נקודה צפה. בפרט מקובלת יחידה זו למדידת עוצמתם של מחשבי-על. היחידה מודדת את כמות הפעולות בנקודה צפה שמבצע המחשב בשנייה.

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v. fall heavily, fall with a thud; plunk down; flap back and forth; fail (Slang)

n. act of flopping, act of falling heavily; plunk, thud; huge failure (Slang)

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Noun
1. an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second"
(synonym) floating-point operation
(hypernym) computer operation, machine operation
2. someone who is unsuccessful
(synonym) dud, washout
(hypernym) failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
(classification) colloquialism
3. a complete failure; "the play was a dismal flop"
(synonym) bust
(hypernym) failure
(hyponym) turkey, bomb, dud
(derivation) fall through, fall flat, founder
4. the act of throwing yourself down; "he landed on the bed with a great flop"
(synonym) collapse
(hypernym) descent

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Verb
1. fall loosely; "He flopped into a chair"
(hypernym) collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
(derivation) collapse
2. fall suddenly and abruptly
(hypernym) descend, fall, go down, come down
3. fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered"
(synonym) fall through, fall flat, founder
(hypernym) fail, go wrong, miscarry
(derivation) bust

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Adverb
1. with a flopping sound; "he tumbled flop into the mud"
2. exactly; "he fell flop on his face"
(synonym) right
(classification) colloquialism

nm. flop, act of flopping, act of falling heavily; plunk, thud; huge failure (Slang)

nm. flop, huge failure (Slang)