BOOTSTRAP
bootstrap
Noun
- A loop (leather or other material) sewn at the side or top rear of a boot to help in pulling the boot on.
- A means of advancing oneself or accomplishing something without aid.
- ''He used his business experience as a bootstrap to win voters.
- The process by which the operating system of a computer is loaded into its memory
- The process necessary to compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- Any method or instance of estimating properties of an estimator (such as its variance) by measuring those properties when sampling from an approximating distribution.
Verb
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
- ''Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college.
- To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
- Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.1
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