bootstrapper

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
21
Letters
12

Definition of bootstrapper

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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.”
  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.”
  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 […]”

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Etymology

From bootstrap + -er.

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