What does TOPS mean?

Definitions for TOPS
tɒpstops

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. ace, A-one, crack, first-rate, super, tiptop, topnotch, top-notch, tops(p)adjective

    of the highest quality

    "an ace reporter"; "a crack shot"; "a first-rate golfer"; "a super party"; "played top-notch tennis"; "an athlete in tiptop condition"; "she is absolutely tops"

Wiktionary

  1. topsnoun

    The uppermost field of a dartboard; the double-20 field

    Scoring 38 more points leaves him with tops for the win.

  2. topsadverb

    At the very most; maximum.

    Your essay should be two pages, tops.

Wikipedia

  1. TOPS

    Total Operations Processing System (TOPS) is a computer system for managing railway locomotives and rolling stock, known for many years of use in the United Kingdom. TOPS was originally developed between the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP), Stanford University and IBM as a replacement for paper-based systems for managing rail logistics. A jointly-owned consultancy company, TOPS On-Line Inc., was established in 1960 with the goal of implementing TOPS, as well as selling it to third parties. Development was protracted, requiring around 660 man-years of effort to produce a releasable build. During mid-1968, the first phase of the system was introduced on the SP, and quickly proved its advantages over the traditional methods practiced prior to its availability.In addition to SP, TOPS was widely adopted throughout North America and beyond. While it was at one point in widespread use across many of the United States railroads, the system has been perhaps most prominently used in the United Kingdom. During 1971, the country's nationalised rail operation, British Rail (BR), opted to procure and integrate TOPS into its operations. The acquisition of an existing system rather than develop an indigenous programme was reasoned to be both cheaper and quicker to implement; it was noted, however, that TOPS was not capable of performing all desired functions. Since its implementation during the mid 1970s, both BR and its successors have continued to operate the system. SP itself has developed a newer system called the Terminal Information Processing System (TIPS), which replaced TOPS entirely during 1980.

ChatGPT

  1. tops

    Tops can refer to multiple things dependent on context, but generally, it refers to the upper part or section of something like a mountain's top, spinning tops (a toy), or in clothing, it pertains to a garment worn on the upper half of the body. It can also symbolize a person who is dominant or controlling in a particular situation.

Wikidata

  1. TOPS

    Total Operations Processing System, or TOPS, is a computer system for managing the locomotives and rolling stock owned by a rail system. It was originally developed by the American Southern Pacific Railroad and was widely sold; it is best known in Britain for its use by British Rail and its successors.

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Anagrams for TOPS »

  1. opts

  2. post

  3. POST

  4. pots

  5. POTS

  6. spot

  7. Spot

  8. stop

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOPS in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of TOPS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of TOPS in a Sentence

  1. Paul Dawson:

    Raw meat carries bacteria and then if you throw it on the cutting board and use a towel or sponge to dry that off, it could pick that up, cutting boards and table tops used for food prep are of concern and need to be cleaned regularly and dried.

  2. Julia Tinetti:

    We had an event that we went to that we dressed alike -- our socks matched, our sneakers matched, our sunglasses matched our shorts were black -- she made us tank tops that said that she was the big sister and I was Cassandra Madison, we kind of just went with it like as a joke. It was not serious at all.

  3. Florian Pappenberger:

    There are locations, mainly in Austria and southern Bavaria, where we haven't seen this level of snowfall ever before, or at least not to that extreme, it is unusual, you don't get very often people chipping the tops of their houses free of snow.

  4. Scott Bolton:

    Just when we think we have things figured out, Jupiter reminds us how much we still have to learn, junos surprise discovery that the atmosphere was not well mixed even well below the cloud tops is a puzzle that we are still trying to figure out. No one would have guessed that water might be so variable across the planet.

  5. Michael Wong:

    Scientists track lightning because it is a marker of convection, the turbulent mixing process that transports Jupiter's internal heat up to the visible cloud tops, ongoing studies of lightning sources will help us understand how convection on Jupiter is different from or similar to convection in the Earth's atmosphere.

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