Pushout
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The colimit of a pair of morphisms which share the same domain.
- 2 A person who is expelled from school or who drops out because of a lack of support.
"For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon."
Example
More examples"For most of these school leavers or 'pushouts', school has been an experience of progressive alienation from their traditional way of life. We prefer the term 'pushout' to 'dropout' because the former term appropriately allocates the agency for the phenomenon."
Etymology
* Deverbal from push out. * (one who leaves school): Intended to avoid the negative implications of dropout.
More for "pushout"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.