gigaflop vs unit of measurement

gigaflop and unit of measurement both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gigaflop	Yes	No	No	No
unit of measurement	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, unit of measurement is a hypernym of gigaflop; that is, unit of measurement is a word with a broader meaning than gigaflop:

gigaflop: a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second.
unit of measurement: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange

Other hypernyms of gigaflop include unit.

gigaflop (noun)	unit of measurement (noun)
a unit of measure for the calculating speed of a computer equal to one billion floating point operations per second.	any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange