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Encyclopedia > Flop
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  • A flop is a slang term for failure in the entertainment world, usually referring to movie, TV show, Broadway musical or play that does not do well, or is expected to do well and falls short.

Flop can also refer to: Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 151 languages. ... Fail and Phail redirect here. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theater combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ...

  • The Flop, a short con
  • Flop, a poker term
  • Flip-flop (electronics), the bistable multivibrator, a circuit with two stable states
  • FLOPS, an abbreviation for the computing term floating point operations per second
  • Flopped image, a type of mirror image in photography, graphic design and printing
  • Flop, a basketball term
  • Diving (football), a football (soccer) term
  • Fosbury Flop, a high jump technique
  • Flop shot, a shot in golf where the ball has a very high trajectory but travels a short distance
  • Flop (band), a defunct 1990s era pop-punk group from Seattle, Washington
  • Flop (album), an industrial and synthpop album by the band And One
  • Fl0p, a network flow analysis tool by Michal Zalewski
  • Box office bomb, a film which the production and marketing costs greatly exceeded the revenue retained by the movie studio
See also: Flip
For the poker term, see Flop (poker). ... The flop in poker refers to the dealing of the first three face-up cards to the board, or to those three cards themselves. ... In digital circuits, the flip-flop, latch, or bistable multivibrator is an electronic circuit which has two stable states and thereby is capable of serving as one bit of memory. ... For other uses, see Flop. ... A flopped image is a static or moving image that is generated by a mirror-reversal of an original across a vertical axis. ... In basketball, flop is a derogatory term that refers to a defensive player intentionally falling backward to the floor upon physical contact with an offensive player. ... This article is about the act of simulation in football. ... Richard Douglas Dick Fosbury (born March 6, 1947) is an American athlete who revolutionised the high jump using a back-first technique, now known as the Fosbury flop. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Flop was an early-1990s pop punk band from Seattle, Washington. ... Flop! (1992) is an industrial/synthpop album by And One. ... Michal Zalewski is a hacker in the Jargon File meaning of the word and a young yet well-known computer security expert from Poland. ... Cleopatra is the biggest box-office bomb of all time. ... Look up flip in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Image File history File links Disambig_gray. ...

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What is FLOPS? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary (0 words)
The FLOPS measurement, therefore, actually measures the speed of the FPU.
One of the most common benchmark tests used to measure FLOPS is called Linpack.
Many experts feel that FLOPS is not a relevant measurement because it fails to take into account factors such as the condition under which the microprocessor is running (e.g., heavy or light loads) and which exact operations are included as floating-point operations.
Introduction to Flip Flops: D and T (1365 words)
For a D flip flop, the control input is labelled D. For a T flip flop, the control input is labelled T. The other input is the clock.
Basically, a JK flip flop is a combination of a D and T flip flop (or more accurately, a D and T flip flop are a simplification of a JK flip flop).
Flip flops allow sequential circuits to have state (i.e., memory), which is something that combinational logic circuits do not have.
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