MIPS may refer to:
Technology
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Million instructions per second
Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed. For complex instruction set computers (CISCs), different instructions take different amounts of time, so the value measured depends on the instruction mix; even for c ...
, a measure of a computer's central processing unit performance
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MIPS architecture
MIPS (Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages) is a family of reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architectures (ISA)Price, Charles (September 1995). ''MIPS IV Instruction Set'' (Revision 3.2), MIPS Technologies, ...
, a RISC instruction set architecture
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Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer
The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was an infrared space telescope launched in 2003. Operations ended on 30 January 2020. Spitzer was the third space telescope dedicated to infrared astronomy, ...
, an instrument on the Spitzer Space Telescope
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Multi-directional Impact Protection System, a helmet safety technology
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Stanford MIPS
MIPS, an acronym for Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages, was a research project conducted by John L. Hennessy at Stanford University between 1981 and 1984. MIPS investigated a type of instruction set architecture (ISA) now calle ...
, a research project
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MIPS-X, a follow-on project to the Stanford MIPS
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Molecularly imprinted polymer A molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is a polymer that has been processed using the molecular imprinting technique which leaves cavities in the polymer matrix with an affinity for a chosen "template" molecule. The process usually involves initiati ...
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Maximum inner-product search
Maximum inner-product search (MIPS) is a search problem, with a corresponding class of search algorithms which attempt to maximise the inner product between a query and the data items to be retrieved. MIPS algorithms are used in a wide variety of ...
, a problem in computer science
Organizations
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Maharana Institute of Professional Studies, an institution in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
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Mansehra International Public School and College in Mansehra, Pakistan
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MIPS Technologies
MIPS Technologies, Inc., formerly MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., was an American fabless semiconductor design company that is most widely known for developing the MIPS architecture and a series of RISC CPU chips based on it. MIPS provides proce ...
, formerly MIPS Computer Systems, the developer of the MIPS architecture
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Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science (MIPS) in Parkville, Victoria
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Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences, a genomics research center in Germany
Other
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Material input per unit of service, an economic efficiency indicator
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Menards Infiniti Pro Series, a former name of an Indy Pro Series automobile race
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Monthly income preferred stock Monthly income preferred stock or MIPS is a hybrid security created by Eli Jacobson, a Sullivan & Cromwell tax partner, and introduced to the market by Goldman Sachs in 1993. In essence, MIPS is a combination of deeply subordinated debt and preferr ...
, a financial instrument
* MIPS, a rabbit in ''
Super Mario 64
is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It was released in Japan and North America in 1996 and PAL regions in 1997. It is the first ''Super Mario'' game to feature 3D gameplay, combining traditional ''S ...
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Minimum Ionizing Particles, a term widely used in experimental particle physics
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Merit-based Incentive Payment System
Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), (, ) commonly called the Permanent Doc Fix, is a United States statute. Revising the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, the Bipartisan Act was the largest scale change to the American health c ...
, a part of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015
See also
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MIP (disambiguation)
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