| Subject | English | Chinese simplified |
| comp., MS | characters per second | 每秒字符数 (A measure of the rate at which a device, such as a disk drive, can transfer data. In serial communications, the speed of a modem in bits per second can generally be divided by 10 for a rough determination of the number of characters per second transmitted) |
| comp., MS | frames per second | 每秒帧数 (The number of video frames displayed per second. Higher frame rates generally produce smoother movement in the picture) |
| comp., MS | kilobits per second | 千位每秒 (Data transfer speed, as through a modem or on a network, measured in multiples of 1,024 bits per second) |
| comp., MS | kilobytes per second | 千字节每秒 (Data transfer speed, as on a network, measured in multiples of 1,024 bytes per second) |
| comp., MS | millions of instructions per second | 百万条指令每秒 (A common measure of processor speed) |