Where does “flop” come from?

flop (Dutch) comes from English FLOP, from English floating-point operation — Alternative form of floating point operation.

flop (Dutch): A failure, something that went wrong; short for...

Definitions

  1. A failure, something that went wrong; short for...

Ancestry of “flop”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishFLOPSynonym of flop
2Englishfloating-point operationAlternative form of floating point operation

Words derived from “flop”

Every word from English floating-point operation →Every word from English FLOP →