nullipotent
adjEtymology Latin roots, Latin nullus (“not any”) + potent (“having power”) – literally, “having no power”.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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.
2
Biology, Natural sciences Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent
- Related terms
- fixed point, idempotent, impotent, nilpotent, no-op, nullipotence, omnipotent, pluripotent, potent, unipotent, ventripotent
- Coordinate terms
- idempotent, pluripotent