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[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>
<p><ent>Quasimodo</ent><br/
-<hw>Quas`i*mo"do</hw> <pr>(kw<adot/z`<esl/*m<omac/"d<osl/)</pr>, <pos>prop. n.</pos> <fld>(Fiction)</fld> <def>The main character in Victor Hugo's novel <ldquo/The Hunchback of Notre Dame<rdquo/. The novel was first published in French under the title <ldqo/Notre Dame de Paris<rdquo/. Quasimodo is a deformed and ugly hunchback who is bellringer at the cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI. He rescues a gypsy girl Esmeralda, falsely convicted of a crime and about to be excuted, and carries her to sanctuary in the cathedral. Near the end of the book he dies while again rescuing her from an abductor. In a movie made in 1923 Quasimodo was portrayed by the actor Lon Chaney, whose impressive makeup and superb acting drew many plaudits. His shout of <ldquo/Sanctuary! Sanctuary!<rdquo/ when rescuing Esmeralda is still sometimes imitated for humorous or dramatic effect.</def><br/
+<hw>Quas`i*mo"do</hw> <pr>(kw<adot/z`<esl/*m<omac/"d<osl/)</pr>, <pos>prop. n.</pos> <fld>(Fiction)</fld> <def>The main character in Victor Hugo's novel <ldquo/The Hunchback of Notre Dame<rdquo/. The novel was first published in French under the title <ldquo/Notre Dame de Paris<rdquo/. Quasimodo is a deformed and ugly hunchback who is bellringer at the cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI. He rescues a gypsy girl Esmeralda, falsely convicted of a crime and about to be excuted, and carries her to sanctuary in the cathedral. Near the end of the book he dies while again rescuing her from an abductor. In a movie made in 1923 Quasimodo was portrayed by the actor Lon Chaney, whose impressive makeup and superb acting drew many plaudits. His shout of <ldquo/Sanctuary! Sanctuary!<rdquo/ when rescuing Esmeralda is still sometimes imitated for humorous or dramatic effect.</def><br/
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>
<p><ent>Quass</ent><br/
@@ -1960,7 +1960,7 @@ Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.</q> <rj><qau>Waller.</qau></rj><
[<source>1913 Webster</source>]</p>
<p><ent>qubit</ent><br/
-<hw>qu"bit</hw> <pr>(k<umac/"b<icr/t)</pr>, <fld>(Information theory)</fld> <ety>[Shortened from <ets>qu</ets>antum <ets>bit</ets>.]</ety> <def>A measure of information, being the information that can be stored in one object that can take a quantum state of 0 or 1. It differs from the classical <er>bit</er> of information theory in that quantum states may assume many intermediate states that are superpositions of the individual discrete states; the quantum states of multiple quantum systems may also be correlated by a phenomenon called <i>entanglement</i>, increasing the complexity of the information storage and retrieval process. See 4th <er>bit</er>, <pos>n.</pos></def> <au>Michael A. Nielsen, <ldqo/Rules for a Complex Quantum World</rdquo/, Scientific American, Nov. 2002, pp. 67-75.</au><br/
+<hw>qu"bit</hw> <pr>(k<umac/"b<icr/t)</pr>, <fld>(Information theory)</fld> <ety>[Shortened from <ets>qu</ets>antum <ets>bit</ets>.]</ety> <def>A measure of information, being the information that can be stored in one object that can take a quantum state of 0 or 1. It differs from the classical <er>bit</er> of information theory in that quantum states may assume many intermediate states that are superpositions of the individual discrete states; the quantum states of multiple quantum systems may also be correlated by a phenomenon called <i>entanglement</i>, increasing the complexity of the information storage and retrieval process. See 4th <er>bit</er>, <pos>n.</pos></def> <au>Michael A. Nielsen, <ldquo/Rules for a Complex Quantum World</rdquo/, Scientific American, Nov. 2002, pp. 67-75.</au><br/
[<source>PJC</source>]</p>
<p><ent>Que</ent><br/

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