nop

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See also: Nop and NOP

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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Noun

nop (plural nops)

  1. (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.
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Verb

nop (third-person singular simple present nops, present participle nopping, simple past and past participle nopped)

  1. (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

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, rare) Alternative form of nope

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Italian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, neologism) nope

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English nope.

Pronunciation

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, neologism) nope

Seri

Noun

nop (plural nopxam)

  1. bobcat, Lynx rufus

References

  • 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

Etymology

Possibly loaned from English nope.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈnop/
  • Rhymes: -op
  • Syllabification: nop

Interjection

nop

  1. (informal, neologism) nope

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