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dropout en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Deverbal from drop out.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
   • The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
2. (countable, uncountable) Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
3. (countable, uncountable) One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
   • 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. 2010, R. Barker Bausell, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, page 193:
   • The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive. 1980 August 30, David Rothenberg, “A New York State of Confusion”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 5:
4. (countable, uncountable) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
5. (countable, uncountable) A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
6. (countable, uncountable) Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
7. (countable, uncountable) A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.

Forms

Deriveds

stopout · maxout · dropout factory · nondropout

Translations (32)

de Aussteigerin (someone who has opted out of conventional society) · mi kaiwhakamakere (one who leaves without completing) · fi pudokas (someone who has opted out of conventional society) · de Abbrecher (one who leaves without completing) · it emarginato (one who leaves without completing) · hu lemorzsolódó (one who leaves without completing) · sv avhoppare (one who leaves without completing) · ja 落ち零れ (someone who has opted out of conventional society) · it escluso (one who leaves without completing) · hu kimaradó (one who leaves without completing) · fi keskeyttäjä (one who leaves without completing) · it rinunciatario (one who leaves without completing) · fi pudokas (one who leaves without completing) · de Abbrecherin (one who leaves without completing) · de Uni-Abbrecher (one who leaves without completing) · hu kibukó (one who leaves without completing) · nl pat (slot in a bicycle frame to hold the axle of a wheel) · de Studienabbrecher (one who leaves without completing) · de Schulabbrecher (one who leaves without completing) · de Schulabbrecherin (one who leaves without completing) · nl pad (slot in a bicycle frame to hold the axle of a wheel) · ja 負け組 (someone who has opted out of conventional society) · es estudiante de carrera trunca (one who leaves without completing) · it ripetente (one who leaves without completing) · it abbandono (one who leaves without completing) · fi syrjäytynyt (someone who has opted out of conventional society) · ja 中退者 (one who leaves without completing) · de Uni-Abbrecherin (one who leaves without completing) · de Aussteiger (someone who has opted out of conventional society) · de Studienabbrecherin (one who leaves without completing) · nl uitvaleinde (slot in a bicycle frame to hold the axle of a wheel) · fi koulupudokas (one who leaves without completing)