Look up bootstrapping, bootstrap, or pull oneself up by one's bootstraps in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The word bootstrapping is a highly productive metaphor, denoting a family of diverse phenomena in several sciences, that are related, sharing a common pattern. Mostly, the origin of a complicated phenomenon is explained by assuming an underlying, more basic level "infrastructure", that ceased to exist after the shifting process had taken place. As mentioned, the metaphor is highly productive, thus new manifestations can be discovered or introduced.
Besides the manifestations of a common pattern, the word may refer also to slightly related or entirely unrelated to the above pattern.
- Mengled interrelated and unrelated meanings into a single list, bootstrapping can mean
- A strap of leather sewn on the back top of each leather boot.
- Bootstrapping (business), to start a business without external help/capital
- Bootstrapping (computing), the process of a simple system activating a more complicated system that serves the same purpose.
- Bootstrapping (compilers), writing a compiler for a computer language using the language itself.
- Bootstrapping (electronics), a form of positive feedback in analog circuit design.
- Bootstrapping (finance), the method to create the spot rate curve.
- Bootstrapping (law), a rule preventing hearsay in conspiracy cases.
- Bootstrapping (linguistics), a theory of language acquisition.
- Bootstrapping (statistics), a resampling technique used to obtain estimates of summary statistics.
- Bootstrap model, in physics, using very general consistency criteria to determine the form of a quantum theory from some assumptions on the spectrum of particles
- Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra"), ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century
- Boostrap transaction or leveraged buyout, gaining control of a majority of a target company's equity through the use of borrowed money or debt
- Bootstrap Bill Turner, the character from Pirates Of The Carribbean.
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