Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bootstrapper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: boot-strap-per
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.

noun

A process that performs bootstrapping.

noun

One who uses bootstrap methods.

Example Sentences

"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."
"If you examine the prerequisites list, you will notice it does not include bootstrapper packages for the Office 2003 PIAs."
"To a nonparametric bootstrapper, simulation might consist in resampling to obtain the 95% confidence interval of the correlation coefficient […]"

Etymology

From bootstrap + -er.

Inflected Forms

bootstrappers (plural)

Questions

What does bootstrapper mean?: Someone engaged in bootstrapping, or self-improvement.
Where does bootstrapper come from?: From bootstrap + -er.

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