English Explanatory Dictionary

dropout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
  2. Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
  3. One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
  4. The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
  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.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-dropout.wav

Word forms

dropout dropouts drop-out

Etymology

Deverbal from drop out.

Derived words

dropout factory maxout nondropout stopout

Translations

Finnish: koulupudokas Finnish: keskeyttäjä Finnish: pudokas German: Abbrecher German: Abbrecherin German: Uni-Abbrecher German: Uni-Abbrecherin German: Schulabbrecher German: Schulabbrecherin German: Studienabbrecher German: Studienabbrecherin Hungarian: kimaradó Hungarian: lemorzsolódó Hungarian: kibukó Italian: emarginato Italian: escluso Italian: rinunciatario Italian: abbandono Italian: ripetente Japanese: 中退者 Māori: kaiwhakamakere Spanish: estudiante de carrera trunca Swedish: avhoppare
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