"No operation", i.e. do nothing.

It comes from the assembly language instruction "noop" on most processors which does nothing for one clock cycle and is used for example in delays.


This seems to be vaguely computer-science related. I think it means that "Add" is a non-operation. In more words, the "Add" operation does nothing to an object in the "Added" state. Does that answer your question?

Edit: Martin's answer is better.