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bootstrapper

noun

Etymology

From bootstrap + -er.

  1. derived from *strebʰ-✻
  2. derived from στρόφος — “rope”
  3. derived from stroppus
  4. derived from estrope — “strap, loop on a harness”
  5. inherited from strop
  6. inherited from strope
  7. compounded as bootstrap — “boot + strap”
  8. suffixed as bootstrapper — “bootstrap + er”

Definitions

  1. Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.

    • They were part of a pioneer discussion group in Queens in the late ’40s, intentionally half black, half white — earnest bootstrappers, civil servants, teachers, who discussed novels, the Bible, politics.

  2. A process that performs bootstrapping.

    • If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs.

  3. One who uses bootstrap methods.

    • To a nonparametric bootstrapper, simulation might consist in resampling to obtain the 95% confidence interval of the correlation coefficient […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bootstrapper. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA