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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Describing an action which has no side effect. Queries are typically nullipotent: they return useful data, but do not change the data structure queried. Contrast with idempotent. not-comparable
2. 2
   Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent not-comparable

Synonyms

All synonyms

idempotentpluripotent

Etymology

Latin roots, Latin nullus (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having no power”.

Related phrases

fixed pointno op

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