quine
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Is quine a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) No
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle Yes
- Words With Friends No
What is the meaning of quine?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.Examples: "This has been bugging me recently. Any quines or pointers to relevant articles or web pages is appreciated. Thanks!"; "Self-reproducing programs are commonly called quines. Do a web search, it should turn up lots of them. There was also a quine thread here in comp.lang.c just days ago, search deja.com (the thread's title was something about self-printing programs, I think)."; "A quine is a program that can print its own source code. Most quines are notoriously difficult (and fiendish) to write. Perl can cheat, though. :)"
verb (English)
1. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of (something obviously real or important).Examples: "quine. v. (1) To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant. "Some philosophers have quined classes, and some have even quined physical objects." Occasionally used intr[ansitively], e.g., "You think I quine, sir. I assure you I do not!""; "As with the puzzle of what happens during the combustion of a metal in pure oxygen (the "steel wool" experiment), this result can of course be quined. Taking the phlogistic view, we could say that the calx requires the same phlogiston content as the metal, so of course the amount of water absorbed must be in accord with that."; "They [some philosophers] deny that mental states and events actually possess the qualitative properties attributed to them by qualia friends and, as a consequence, they advocate quining qualia."transitive
adj (English)
1. (botany, obsolete, rare) Of leaves: arranged in whorls of five.not-comparableobsoleteraretransitive
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