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Quine has 4 different meanings across 2 categories:

Noun · Proper Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)

2

A program that produces its own source code as output.

Verb
1

To deny the existence or significance of something obviously real or important.

Proper Noun
1

A surname, from Manx​.

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Origin

The word "quine" comes from the name of American logician Willard Van Orman Quine. It was coined by computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter to describe a program or text that contains and executes its own source code.

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