English noun: million instructions per second | |||
| 1. | million instructions per second (quantity) (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system) | ||
| Samples | 4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second. | ||
| Synonyms | MIPS | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unit, unit of measurement | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||