MIPS

(mɪps) n acronym for (Units) million instructions per second

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(mɪps) million instructions per second: a measure of computer speed.

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Noun

MIPS - (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"million instructions per secondcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structuresunit, unit of measurement - any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume"

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(computer science) million instructions per second

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(unit, benchmark)Million instructions per second.

The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processorexecutes instructions.

Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication ofProcessor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. Thisexpresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of mostbenchmark claims, said attitude being one of the greatcultural divides between hackers and marketroids.

The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimesheard.

See also KIPS and GIPS.

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(2)VAX MIPS.

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(processor)Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages.

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(company)MIPS Technologies, Inc.

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(1) See MIPS Technologies.

(2) (Million Instructions Per Second) See instructions per second.

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Monthly Income Preferred Securities

Preferred stock representing a portion of ownership in a limited partnership. The limited partnership is a subsidiary of another company and exists only for the purpose of issuing the MIPS. The proceeds from MIPS are lent to the partnership's parent company. These securities thus combine aspects of stocks and bonds; they mature on a monthly basis and usually have a par value of $25. Returns on MIPS come out of the partnership's pretax earnings.

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See Monthly Income Preferred Securities.

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Acronym	Definition
MIPS➣Million Instructions Per Second
MIPS➣Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (Medicare)
MIPS➣Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (IR camera for NASA's Spitzer Telescope)
MIPS➣Multidirectional Impact Protection System (bicycle helmets)
MIPS➣Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages
MIPS➣Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
MIPS➣Millions of Instructions per Second
MIPS➣Mcafee Intrusion Protection Solutions
MIPS➣Multichannel Interface Processor
MIPS➣Microcomputer Image Processing System
MIPS➣Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences
MIPS➣Material Input Per Service (sustainability unit)
MIPS➣Maryland Industrial Partnerships
MIPS➣Monthly Income Preferred Shares (financial product developed in 1993)
MIPS➣Mega Instructions Per Second
MIPS➣Meaningless Information Per Second
MIPS➣Menards Infiniti Pro Series (auto racing)
MIPS➣Member of the Institute of Professional Sound (UK)
MIPS➣Medical Image Perception Society
MIPS➣Master Integrated Program Schedule
MIPS➣Multimission Image Processing Subsystem
MIPS➣Multimedia Information Presentation System
MIPS➣Marine Integrated Personnel System
MIPS➣Maintenance Index Page
MIPS➣Modified Integrated Program Summary
MIPS➣Maritime Integrated Air and Missile Defense Planning System
MIPS➣Mir Interface to Payload Systems
MIPS➣Macedonian Interbank Payment System
MIPS➣Male Iron Pipe Size (pipe threading)
MIPS➣Membrane Interface Probe System
MIPS➣Marine Corps Integrated Personnel System
MIPS➣Multi-Instruction Processing System
MIPS➣Maritime Integrated Personnel System
MIPS➣Master Installment Purchase System
MIPS➣Mini Interferometric Phase Sensor
MIPS➣Molecular Imaging Program Aat Stanford
MIPS➣Morse Intercept Position Simulator
MIPS➣Minimum Integration Protection System
MIPS➣Marshall Islands Postal Service

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

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