dropout

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Synonyms: drop out, drop-out

Antonyms: drop out, drop-out

Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.

Noun

1. Someone who has left an [[educational]] [[institution]] without completing the [[course]]
2. Someone who has [[opt out|opted out]] of [[conventional]] [[society]].
3. One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so.
4. {{senseid|en|bicycle part}} {{lb|en|bicycle part}} The [[slot]] in the [[frame]] that accepts the [[axle]]s of the [[wheel]]s.
5. A damaged portion of a [[tape]] or [[disk]], causing a brief [[omission]] of [[audio]], [[video]], or [[data]].
6. Momentary loss of an electronic signal.
7. A technique for [[regularize|regularizing]] a [[neural network]] by discarding a [[random]] [[subset]] of its units.

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