Kips

Thousand instructions per second (kIPS) Before standard benchmarks were available, average speed rating of computers was based on calculations for a mix of instructions with the results given in kilo Instructions Per Second (kIPS).

In many cases KIPs have been used on peaceful protesters, to disperse crowds or as a tool of intimidation and punishment.

AJ kips up, charging at a cornered Nakamura with a forearm.

Carmel Place, in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, was the first New York building to exclusively offer microapartments.

Nearly a year after residents first started moving into Kips Bay’s American Copper Buildings, the developer, JDS Development, has now unveiled the stunning rooftop space on the east tower of the project.

Originally applied to the preservation of surplus fish (particularly those known as "kips," harvested during spawning runs), kippering has come to mean the preservation of any fish, poultry, beef or other meat in like manner.

Pei involved himself in the construction process at Kips Bay, even inspecting the bags of concrete to check for consistency of color.

The Green Building continued the grid design of Kips Bay and Society Hill.

The thousand instructions per second (kIPS) unit is rarely used today, as most current microprocessors can execute at least a million instructions per second.