ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Nullipotent

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Nullipotent is an adjective meaning (biology) Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent.

Meaning

(biology) Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent.

More Meanings

  1. (mathematics, computing) 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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nonidempotent, nulliporous, nonmutating, nonnull, nullary, nullable.

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