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

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4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second

mips UK [mɪps] US noun [plural] computing

million instructions per second: a unit for measuring computer speed

Thesaurus: units for measuring computer information or speed_hyponym abbreviations used in computing and on the internet_hyponym

n. a unit of computing speed equivalent to a million instructions per second

MIPS 7 [mɪps] [mɪps] abbreviation (computing)

million instructions per second (a unit for measuring computer speed)

[MIPS] 1970s: acronym.