Associations to the word «Mips»

Wiktionary

MIPS, noun. (computing) Millions of Instructions Per Second
MIPS, noun. (electronics) Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages

Dictionary definition

MIPS, noun. (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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats