whetstone
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈwɛtstəʊn/ / /ˈʍɛtˌstoʊn/ / [ˈʍɛʔˌstoʊn] / /ˈwɛtˌstoʊn/
name
Etymology: The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at an English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.
- A suburb and ward in the borough of Barnet, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ2693).
- A large village and civil parish in Blaby district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SP5597).
- A census-designated place in Cochise County, Arizona, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
- A surname.
- A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.
“Developed in the early 1970s by Harold Curnow and Brian Wichmann, Whetstones was originally released in Algol and Fortran versions but was later translated into several other languages.”
“Whetstone reflects mostly numerical computing, using a substantial amount of floating-point arithmetic.”
noun
Etymology: The benchmark is named after the Whetstone compiler built at an English Electric Company division in Whetstone, Leicestershire.
- A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.
“The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English whestone, whetston, whetesston, from Old English hwetstān, from Proto-West Germanic *hwattjastain (“whetstone”). Equivalent to whet (“to sharpen”) + stone.
- To sharpen with a whetstone.
“Near-synonym: hone (verb)”