Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nullipotent

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: nul-lipo-tent
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

adj

Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent

Etymology

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

Phrases

fixed point no-op

Frequently Paired Words

fixed point idempotent impotent nilpotent no-op nullipotence omnipotent pluripotent

Questions

What does nullipotent mean?: 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.
Where does nullipotent come from?: Latin roots, Latin nullus (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having no power”.

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