What does drop out mean?
Drop out means Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course.
Drop out
Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Meaning
Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course.
Definitions by Sense
- 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.
- (cycling) 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.
Example Sentences
The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
The pastures are filled with gay political drop-outs, persons of reasonable intent who found the scene personally destructive.
To avoid excessive dropouts from the study, we wouldn't employ a single tutored group and a single control group that received no instruction at all.
Synonyms for drop out
Antonyms for drop out
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Word Forms
- dropouts
- drop-out
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The politicians of the world are mere political university dropouts.
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