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bootstrapper en · NOUN

Etymology

From bootstrap + -er.

Meanings

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. 2009 January 18, George Vecsey, “A Journey From Ebbets Field to the Steps of the Capitol”, in New York Times:
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. 2009, Rob Bovey, Stephen Bullen, Dennis Wallentin, John Green, Professional Excel Development:
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 […] 2009, James R. Thompson, Simulation: A Modeler's Approach, page xi:

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