nop
/nɔp/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
verb
To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
name
A surname.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of nop.
verb
Alternative letter-case form of nop.
name
The station code of North Point in Hong Kong.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "For example, if there is a CALL 3140 and we want to skip this call, we can NOP it out."
- "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."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /nɔp/
- British English: /nɒp/