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UK
/bˈuːtstɹæp/
]
[ US /ˈbutˌstɹæp/ ]
[ US /ˈbutˌstɹæp/ ]
VERB
- help oneself, often through improvised means
NOUN
- a strap that is looped and sewn to the top of a boot for pulling it on
How To Use bootstrap In A Sentence
- These low-aspect-ratio stellarator-tokamak hybrids differ from conventional stellarators in their use of the plasma-generated bootstrap current to supplement the poloidal field from external coils.
- All other things being equal, is a check from his venture fund better than bootstrapping with no cash?
- It was a formal visit that he made and so I tagged along on his bootstraps.
- In many of the bootstrap analyses, node A is disrupted because the long plecopteran branch joins with the long collembolan branch, and this attraction is reduced under the more complex models.
- What's more, do we have a sufficient number of critical solid-state devices safely stored away so that they can be used to bootstrap the production of new electronics should the unimaginable happen?
- If the alleged boodler commented, the comment was a fair way to bootstrap the allegation into other news outlets. Fox smears Clinton and Obama in one broad stroke.
- Thanks to Sarah Lai Stirland, Evan Hansen and Michael Calore at Wired for their help in bootstrapping this. Scripting News for 4/2/2008 « Scripting News Annex
- Next, we generated 100 parametric bootstrap replicates conditioned upon this phylogeny and the corresponding estimated model of evolution.
- The bootstrap sampling was limited to 100 replications because of the computationally intensive nature of the simulation.
- The big three can still be relevant, mind you; I suspect Asimov’s was essential in bootstrapping Charles Stross into being the decade’s pre-eminent SF writer when it published the short stories that would eventually become the Hugo-nominated novel Accelerando. Marketing the Big Three, Part 2