Ancilla
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /anˈsɪlə/
Origin
From Latin ancilla ("maid, slave-girl").
Full definition of ancilla
Noun
ancilla
(plural ancillae)- A maid.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 306:‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste ....
- An auxiliary or accessory
- January 23, 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.