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dropout

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noun
  1. 1

    Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the coursecountableuncountable

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

    Someone who has opted out of conventional society.countableuncountable

  3. 3

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

    • 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.
  4. 4

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

  5. 5

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

  6. 6

    Momentary loss of an electronic signal.countableuncountable

  7. 7

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

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