Nullipotent vs. Pluripotent
Nullipotentadjective
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.
Nullipotentadjective
(biology) Incapable of developing into any cell type; compare pluripotent
Pluripotentadjective
(biology) Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all.
