ulp /ʌlp/exclamation 1noun 1forms 1 exclamation1 •The sound of a person gulping in fear.I sent her a text asking as nonchalantly as possible whether cows ever go for you. [...] The answer I got was, 'Occasionally they do, and they can be bloody scary.' Ulp. — 2009 noun1 •The value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents, used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations.Floating point operations are correct to within half an ulp, and the calculation of uvw by two floating point multiplications will be correct within about one ulp (ignoring second-order terms). — 1981 formsulps
ULP noun3 •(US) Initialism of unfair labor practice.Settlement of an ULP charge which required the parties to reopen the existing collective bargaining agreement did not remove the collective bargaining agreement as a bar. — 1996 •Initialism of ubiquitin-like protein. •Abbreviation of ultra-luminous pulsar. formsULPs