Nop

//nɒp// intj, name, noun, verb, slang

intj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.

    "The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of nop. alt-of
Verb
  1. 1
    To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.

    "For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out."

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of nop. alt-of
Intj
  1. 1
    Alternative form of nope. alt-of, alternative, informal, rare
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    The station code of North Point in Hong Kong.

Synonyms

All synonyms
no opno-op

Example

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"The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing."

Related phrases

NOP sledNOP slidemachine codeno op

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