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Noun: MIPS
  1. (computing) 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";
    - million instructions per second

Derived forms: MIPSs

Type of: unit, unit of measurement

Encyclopedia: MIPS

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