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Maid A maid, housemaid, or maidservant is a female domestic worker. In the Victorian era, domestic service was the second-largest category of employment in England and Wales, after agricultural work. In developed Western nations, full-time maids a ...

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Ancillae ''Ancillae'' (plural) (singular, ''ancilla'') were female house slaves in ancient Rome, as well as in Europe during the Middle Ages.Judith M. Bennett & Amy M. Froide, Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800' In medieval Europe, slavery was ...

Ancilla College Ancilla College was a private Roman Catholic junior college near Donaldson, Indiana. It was founded by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ in 1937 as an extension of DePaul University for the training of Catholic novices and candidates of the Poor ...

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Ancilla bit Ancilla bits are extra bits (units of information) used in computing paradigms that require reversible operations, such as classical reversible computing and quantum computing. Unlike classical computing where bits can be freely set to 0 or 1, rev ...

, a bit used in quantum computing * ''Ancilla'' (gastropod), a genus of olive snails

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