whetstone
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Is whetstone a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of whetstone?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) A stimulant.figuratively
2. (computing) Alternative letter-case form of Whetstone (“benchmark”).alt-of
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To sharpen with a whetstone.Examples: "Near-synonym: hone (verb)"Synonyms: stone#Verbtransitive
name (English)
1. (computing) A synthetic benchmark for evaluating the power and performance of a computer, primarily based on floating-point arithmetic.Examples: "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 (English)
1. (computing) A single instruction of the Whetstone benchmark, often expressed as a value per second.Examples: "The Prodigy 4 does 500,000 Whetstones."
Definition source: Wiktionary