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noun
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an act or instance of dropping out.
2.
a student who withdraws before completing a course of instruction.
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a student who withdraws from high school after having reached the legal age to do so.
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a person who withdraws from established society, especially to pursue an alternate lifestyle.
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EXPAND6.
Rugby. a drop kick made by a defending team from within its own 25-yard (23-meter) line as a result of a touchdown or of the ball's having touched or gone outside of a touch-in-goal line or the dead-ball line.
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Also called highlight halftone. a halftone negative or plate in which dots have been eliminated from highlights by continued etching, burning in, opaquing, or the like.
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COLLAPSEAlso called dropout error. the loss of portions of the information on a recorded magnetic tape due to contamination of the magnetic medium or poor contact with the tape heads.
Also, drop-out.
Origin:
1925–30, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase drop out
1925–30, Americanism; noun use of verb phrase drop out
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Drop-outs
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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Computing Dictionary
drop-outs definition
1. A variety of "power glitch" (see glitch); momentary zero voltage on the electrical mains.
2. Missing characters in typed input due to software malfunction or system overload (one cause of such behaviour under Unix when a bad connection to a modem swamps the processor with spurious character interrupts; see screaming tty).
3. Mental glitches; used as a way of describing those occasions when the mind just seems to shut down for a couple of beats. See glitch, fried.
[Jargon File]
(2001-02-22)
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