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countable and uncountable, plural dropouts
Someone who has left an educational institution without completing the course examples
Someone who has opted out of conventional society. examples
One who suddenly leaves anything, or the act of doing so. quotations examples
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.
2010, R. Barker Bausell, Too Simple to Fail: A Case for Educational Change, page 193
(cycling) The slot in the frame that accepts the axles of the wheels. examples
A damaged portion of a tape or disk, causing a brief omission of audio, video, or data. examples
Momentary loss of an electronic signal. examples
A technique for regularizing a neural network by discarding a random subset of its units. examples