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4-letter words containing s, p

  • gprs — General Packet Radio Service
  • gpss — General Purpose Systems Simulator. Geoffrey Gordon, 1960. Discrete simulations. "The Application of GPSS V to Discrete System Simulation", G. Gordon, P-H 1975. Versions include GPSS II (1963), GPSS III (1965), GPS/360 (1967), and GPSS V (1970).
  • gspl — (language)   Greenberg's System Programming Language. Bernard Greenberg.
  • gyps — Plural form of gyp.
  • haps — Apis.
  • hasp — Houston Automatic Spooling Program
  • hesp — (Scotland) A measure of two hanks of linen thread.
  • hips — Plural form of hip.
  • hops — to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground.
  • hosp — Hospital.
  • hpfs — High Performance File System
  • hsrp — Hot Standby Routing Protocol
  • hyps — Plural form of hyp.
  • imps — Plural form of imp.
  • ipes — Plural form of ipe.
  • ipse — Integrated Project Support Environment
  • ispf — Interactive System Productivity Facility
  • ispl — Instruction Set Processor Language. The original ISP language, written in BLISS ca 1971.
  • isps — Instruction Set Processor Specifications. Operational hardware specification language. Successor to ISPL.
  • issp — Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme: a method of dealing with persistent young offenders involving electronic tagging and making a digital photograph of the subject available for recognition by CCTV surveillance cameras
  • itsp — Internet Telephony Service Providers
  • jips — JANET IP Service
  • kbps — (computing) kilobits per second.
  • kips — Also called kip-up [kip-uhp] /ˈkɪpˌʌp/ (Show IPA), kick-up. an acrobatic movement in which a person moves from a position lying on the back to a standing position with a vigorous swing of both legs coordinated with a launching push of the arms.
  • laps — the act of lapping liquid.
  • leps — Plural form of lep.
  • lips — Plural form of lip.
  • lisp — a high-level programming language that processes data in the form of lists: widely used in artificial intelligence applications.
  • lops — Plural form of lop.
  • maps — Plural form of map.
  • mbps — megabits per second
  • mcps — Mechanical Copyright Protection Society
  • mips — 1.   (unit, benchmark)   Million instructions per second. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. VAX MIPS. 3.   (processor)   Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. 4.   (company)   MIPS Technologies, Inc.
  • mops — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mop.
  • mpls — Multiprotocol Label Switching
  • mpsx — Mathematical Programming System Extended. Solution strategy for mathematical programming. "Mathematical Programming System Extended (MPSX) Control Language User's Manual", SH20-0932, IBM. Sammet 1978.
  • msrp — Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price
  • naps — Plural form of nap.
  • neps — Plural form of nep.
  • nips — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
  • nlsp — NetWare Link State Protocol
  • nops — Plural form of nop.
  • oops — Used to show recognition of a mistake or minor accident, often as part of an apology.
  • opes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ope.
  • opps — Misspelling of oops.
  • ops5 — (language)   A programming language for rule-based production systems. A rule consists of pre-condition(s) and a resulting action. The system checks its working memory to see if there are rules whose pre-conditions are satisfied, if so, the action in one selected satisfied rule is executed. There is a public domain implementation of an OPS5 interpreter written by Charles L. Forgy <[email protected]> in 1977. It was first implemented in Lisp and later in BLISS. It was also ported to Common Lisp by George Wood and Jim Kowalski. See also C5, OPS83, OPS4, OPS5+, OPS83. Inference Engine Tech, Cambridge MA.
  • opts — to make a choice; choose (usually followed by for).
  • opus — a musical composition.
  • ospf — Open Shortest-Path First Interior Gateway Protocol
  • pa's — father.
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