ancilla

Definition

A maid.

Etymology

From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).

Example Sentences

• "‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]"
• "The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states."
• "The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator."

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