petaflop
/ˈpɛtəflɑp/noun
petaflop is a noun meaning “a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-T-A-F-L-O-P, and it appears about once in every 85 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of petaflop is petaflops.
What does petaflop mean?
noun
- 1
a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
- 2
1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce petaflop?
- UK /ˈpɛtəflɒp/
- US /ˈpɛtəflɑp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of petaflop
- petaflops plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is petaflop?
Petaflop appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does petaflop come from?
From peta- + flop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).