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English word origin

Etymology of MIPS

Analyzable as M- (“mega-, 10⁶x”) + IPS

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Unnumbered source etymology

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name

Initialism of Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages, a RISC-style instruction set architecture.

noun

Initialism of million instructions per second.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Analyzable as M- (“mega-, 10⁶x”) + IPS

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