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Yes. The word quine is a Scrabble US word. The word quine is worth 14 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word quine is a Scrabble UK word and has 14 points:

Q10U1I1N1E1

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5-letter words (1 found)

QUINE,

4-letter words (1 found)

QUIN,

3-letter words (3 found)

NIE,QIN,UNI,

2-letter words (6 found)

EN,IN,NE,NU,QI,UN,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 12 words from quine according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of quine

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Definitions and meaning of quine

quine

Etymology

Decapitalization of Quine. Named after philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine. Senses related to self-reference are coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1979 in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach (referencing the paradox named after him), while the verb sense of “to deny the importance or significance of something” was independently coined by Daniel Dennett in 1978 in The Philosophical Lexicon.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /kwaɪn/

Noun

quine (plural quines)

  1. (computing) A program that produces its own source code as output.
    • 2009, Mike Ash, Re: 406 Not Acceptable (was Re: "--All You Zombies--" title), rec.arts.sf.written, Usenet
      Gee, last time I wrote a quine in Lisp it ended up being kind of difficult...

Translations

Verb

quine (third-person singular simple present quines, present participle quining, simple past and past participle quined)

  1. (philosophy) To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.
    • 2000, Don Ross, Introduction: The Dennettian Stance in 2000, Don Ross, Andrew Brook and David Thompson, Dennett’s Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, page 14:
      Qualia are quined not because Dennett imagines that there is nothing it is like to be conscious, but because no clear demarcation can be drawn between representations of qualitative properties and representations of other sorts of states.
    • 2009, Andrew Pessin, Mental Transparency, Direct Sensaition, and the Unity of the Cartesian Mind in 2009, Jon Miller, Topics in Early Modern Philosophy of Mind, Springer, page 34:
      One might object that in this section I’ve not exactly quined Cartesian qualia, […]
  2. To append something to a quotation of itself.

Related terms

  • Quine
  • quiner (noun)
  • quined (adjective)
  • quining (noun)

Further reading

  • Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “quine”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.
  • quine (computing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • Quine's paradox on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quīnus (“fivefold; five by five”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kin/

Noun

quine m (plural quines)

  1. set of five, group of five (such as the digits on one hand)

Descendants

  • → English: keno

Further reading

  • “quine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkʷiː.ne/, [ˈkʷiːnɛ]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkwi.ne/, [ˈkwiːne]

Numeral

quīne

  1. vocative masculine singular of quīnus

Portuguese

Verb

quine

  1. inflection of quinar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Scots

Noun

quine (plural quines)

  1. Doric form of quean (“young woman, girl”)

Source: wiktionary.org