million instructions per second

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	unit, unit of measurement,
definition	:	any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange (noun.quantity)

domain category	:	computer science, computing,
definition	:	the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures (noun.cognition)