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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /nɒp/
- (General American) IPA(key): /nɔp/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nop (plural nops)
- (programming) A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
- 1999, Dominic Sweetman, See MIPS Run:
- The MIPS instruction set is rich in nops, since any instruction with zero as a destination is guaranteed to do nothing.
- 2004, Patterson et al, Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
- Notice that in computing CPI or IPC, we do not count any nops executed as useful instructions.
Synonyms
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[edit]Verb
[edit]nop (third-person singular simple present nops, present participle nopping, simple past and past participle nopped)
- (programming) To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
- 1992, The Cyborg, The Cracking Manual:
- For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out.
- 2012, Michael W. Berry, Kyle A. Gallivan, Efstratios Gallopoulos, High-Performance Scientific Computing: Algorithms and Applications:
- Worse, some patching can result in codes which cannot be executed: for example nopping the load which provides the value for the denominator of a division can result in a division by zero.
Etymology 2
[edit]Interjection
[edit]nop
Anagrams
[edit]Italian
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Pronunciation
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[edit]nop
Portuguese
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[edit]nop
Seri
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Noun
[edit]nop (plural nopxam)
References
[edit]- Moser, Mary B., Marlett, Stephen A. (2010) Comcaac quih yaza quih hant ihiip hac: cmiique iitom - cocsar iitom - maricaana iitom [Seri-Spanish-English Dictionary], 2nd edition, Hermosillo: Plaza y Valdés Editores, →ISBN, page 454.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly loaned from English nope.
Pronunciation
[edit]Interjection
[edit]nop
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