dropout

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course

   • The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
2. 2

   Someone who has opted out of conventional society.

3. 3

   One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.

   • The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
   • To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all.
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   1. 4

      The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.

   2. 5

      A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.

   3. 6

      Momentary loss of an electronic signal.

   4. 7

      A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.

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