dropout
nounEtymology Deverbal from drop out.
7 senses
- 1Someone who has left an educational institution without…
- 2Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
- 3One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
- 4The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
- 5A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief…
- 6Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
- 7A technique for regularizing a neural network by…
1
Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
- The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
2
Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
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.1980 August 30, David Rothenberg, “A New York State of Confusion”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 5:
- 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.2010, R. Barker Bausell, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, page 193:
5
A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
6
Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
7
A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.
- Derived terms
- dropout factory, maxout, nondropout, stopout