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A mechanism which structurally, physically, or electronically blocks human beings from committing an error.
Walls, locks, and barbed-wire are examples of a structural error-impossibilitator. And the way Web pages are programmed to not allow a user to proceed to the next step until the user types their password, for example, is an example of an electronic error-impossibilitator. Condoms and other pregnancy-prevention devices are also error-impossibilitators. However, some error-impossibilitators are not fool-proof. Parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, personal trainers, security guards or bouncers are not error-impossibilitators because—unless they stand in someone's way—they can only help others prevent errors. Error-impossibilitators are of two types, those that can be circumvented, such as by cutting a barbed wire, and those which cannot be circumvented, such as the wall President Trump offered to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. Note that very few error-impossibilitators are 100% reliable because if someone wants to, they can, for example, dig a tunnel under a wall, as people have done to get to the other side.
To make an action or thing impossible.
Usernames, passwords, and personal identification numbers (PIN) impossibilitate anyone who does not know them from entering a website or completing a financial transaction at an automatic teller machint (ATM).
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, at the New Year's Celebration held each year in Times Square, being surrounded by massive numbers of people made it one-hundred percent impossible for anyone from advancing.
The addictive chemicals in cigarettes make it close to impossible for smokers to stop smoking.
Drivers Licenses make it almost impossible for someone to drive without having obtained a driver's license.
Locks make it mostly impossible for anyone to enter without opening the lock with its key.
Male as well as female condoms make it as impossible as possible for a sperm to not enter the vagina.
Prisons make it close to impossible for any prisoner to escape.
Reserve parachutes make it virtually impossible for someone to continue free falling and die on impact because their main parachute did not open and they did not have a reserve parachute, or as unlikely as it seems to be, if the reserve parachute also failed to open. But there is usually no way to prevent unexpected things from happening.
The sex drive is so powerful, it impossibilitates a species' self-extinction.
Structural or electronic blocks impossibilitate certain things from taking place. But some of those what could be called—structural or electronic impossibilitators" do not always succeed.
To make more than a little impossible.
...something in the core design of SQLObject, impossibilitates it to do the equivalent of an executemany() when doing inserts.