MIPS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does MIPS mean? 

• MIPS (noun)
  The noun MIPS has 1 sense:

1. (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

  Familiarity information: MIPS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIPS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

million instructions per second; MIPS

Context example:

4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second

Hypernyms ("MIPS" is a kind of...):

unit; unit of measurement (any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange)

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

 Context examples 

Spitzer's Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) instrument took this image during Spitzer's cold mission, which ran from the spacecraft's launch in 2003 until 2009, when the space telescope exhausted its supply of liquid helium coolant. (This marked the beginning of Spitzer's warm mission.) Infrared light can't be seen by the human eye, but warm objects, from human bodies to interstellar dust clouds, emit infrared light.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)