Bootstrapper
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
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 […]"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From bootstrap + -er.
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