dropout

English

noun
Definitions
  • Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
  • Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
  • One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
  • (cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
  • A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
  • Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
  • A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.

Etymology

Compound from English drop (act of dropping) + English out (surpassing, beyond, outward, away from).

Origin

English

out

Gloss

surpassing, beyond, outward, away from

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