Definitions for mips
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1. MIPS, million instructions per secondnoun

   (computer science) 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"

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1. MIPSnoun

   Millions of Instructions Per Second

2. MIPSnoun

   Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages

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1. mips

   MIPS stands for Million Instructions per Second. It is a measure used to quantify the performance of a computer's central processing unit (CPU), indicating how many millions of instructions the CPU can process in one second. This measure was widely used in computer science and technology during the 1970s and 1980s, but it has become less important as other methods of measuring computer performance have been developed.

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1. MIPS

   [abbreviation] 1. A measure of computing speed; formally, ‘Million Instructions Per Second’ (that's 106 per second, not 220!); often rendered by hackers as ‘Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed’ or in other unflattering ways, such as ‘Meaningless Information Provided by Salesmen’. This joke expresses an attitude nearly universal among hackers about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids (see also BogoMIPS). The singular is sometimes ‘1 MIP’ even though this is clearly etymologically wrong. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. Computers, especially large computers, considered abstractly as sources of computrons. “This is just a workstation; the heavy MIPS are hidden in the basement.” 3. The corporate name of a particular RISC-chip company, later acquired by SGI. 4. Acronym for ‘Meaningless Information per Second’ (a joke, prob.: from sense 1).

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1. MIPS

   What does MIPS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the MIPS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

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1. • Computer Science
   • Unit Of Measurement

Anagrams for mips »

1. PMSI

2. simp

3. spim

4. imps

5. imps.

How to pronounce mips?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of mips in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of mips in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of mips in a Sentence

1. Lee Simpson:

   Royalties growth in the first half is better than hoped, with (volumes of MIPS shipped) stabilizing sooner than expected.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=mips
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Mips
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Mips