bootstrap
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
bootstrap (plural bootstraps)
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
- (computing) The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory
- (computing) The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- (statistics) Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
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Translations
a loop at the top of a boot to help in pulling it on
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a means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something
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the process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory
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the process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program
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See also
Bootstrapping (statistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
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- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college.
- (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- (computing) To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.[1]
- (statistics) To employ a bootstrap method.
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide[2], page 5:
- Gradually, more and more terms were discovered, especially as there was a tendency in the literature to list a number of related terms together, thus allowing me to bootstrap new terms found accompanying those originally searched for.
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Translations
to help (oneself) without the aid of others
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to load the operating system — see boot
to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program
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