Definition of "no-op" [no-op]

• An instruction or operation that has no significant effect. (noun)

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• "While the joy stick is no-op because the switches vibrated loose the crew recalls there last moments."
• "A very minimal system might just provide a set of inbuilt libraries that are there in the initial namespace, so require-ing them is a no-op, a require mechanism that is just file inclusion perhaps checking the included file contains a single module with the same name as we're expecting, if we can be bothered, and a module macro that just expands to its contents."
• "Here's an example: in the readFast.py file, += is used to join strings, files are iterated inefficiently, and no-op function calls are performed."