Short for no operation (NOP), common assembly language instruction.
Meanings
An instruction or operation that has no effect; a null operation.
A JMP instruction qualifies as a no-op in this sense. 1999, Donald Knuth, MMIXware: A RISC Computer for the Third Millennium:
Points may be coincident and the number of specified points can be zero, in which case the function is a no-op. 1991, Graham C. E. Winn, OS/2 Presentation Manager GPI:
(not-comparable, of a transgender or transsexual person) Having chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
Both ‘no-op’ interviewees hold relatively stable identities as TG and offer interesting perspectives on trans repudiation from a TG standpoint. 2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12:
A transgender or transsexual person who has chosen not to undergo sex reassignment surgery.
At the time of the interviews, nineteen of the twenty interviewees were taking hormones; five were pre-operative; thirteen were postoperative; and two were ‘no-ops’ (no surgery intended at the time of interview). 2008, Christopher Shelley, “Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action”, in Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 12: