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Definition of dropout - Reverso English Dictionary
Noun
1.
educationUS someone who quits school before graduationUS
- He became a successful entrepreneur despite being a dropout..
2.
electronicsTECH. momentary loss of electronic signalTECH.
- The broadcast experienced a dropout during the storm.
3.
technologyTECH. technique in neural networks discarding unitsTECH.
- Dropout improved the model's performance by preventing overfitting.
Expressions with dropout
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someone who leaves high school before graduating
He became a successful entrepreneur despite being a high-school dropout.
someone who quits school permanently
The school dropout faced many challenges in finding a job.
percentage of people who leave a program or study before finishing
The college is trying to reduce its first-year student dropout rate.
Origin of dropout
English, drop (fall) + out (out)
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dropout
person who leaves school before graduation
Examples of dropout in a sentence
She was a high school dropout who later earned her degree. There was a dropout during the live concert stream. The video call had a dropout due to poor connection. Using dropout, the network became more robust. Dropout layers are crucial for training deep models.
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- French:décrocheur, coupure, ...
- German:Schulabbrecher, Signalverlust, ...
- Italian:desertore, interruzione del segnale, ...
- Spanish:desertor, corte, ...
- Portuguese:desistente, interrupção, ...
- Chinese:辍学生, 信号中断, ...
- Japanese:中退者, ...
- Arabic:مُنْقَطِع عَنِ الدِّراسَة, انقطاع, ...
- Hebrew:נוֹשֵׁר, קְטִיעַת אוֹת, ...
- Russian:бросивший школу, сбой, ...
- Ukrainian:відрахований, збій сигналу, ...
- Hindi:विद्यालय त्यागी, ड्रॉपआउट, ...
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