bootstrapping
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Definitions ofbootstrapping
- To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
Example: "Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college."
- To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
- To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
Example: "Bootstrapping means building the GNU C Library, GNU Compiler Collection and several other key system programs.http//www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6"
- To employ a bootstrap method.
- To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
- The process by which something is bootstrapped.
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