dropout

Meanings

Plural: dropouts

Noun

• someone who quits school before graduation
• someone who withdraws from a social group or environment
• Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course
• Someone who has opted out of conventional society.
• One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
• The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels.
• A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data.
• Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
• A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units.