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.

To help (oneself) without the aid of others. / (computing) To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.

present participle of bootstrap

The process by which something is bootstrapped.

plural of bootstrap

simple past tense and past participle of bootstrap

plural of bootstrapping

plural of bootstrap paradox

A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.

A machine learning ensemble meta-algorithm designed to improve the stability and accuracy of machine learning algorithms used in statistical classification and regression.