Bootstrapping
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The term bootstrapping is used in the following contexts:
- Bootstrapping (compilers), writing a compiler for a previously uncompiled computer language using the language itself.
- Bootstrapping (computing), starting a computer or building complex tools after building simple tools that allow for the creation of the more complex tools.
- Bootstrapping (linguistics), a theory of language acquisition.
- Bootstrapping (physics), axiomatic sets.
- Bootstrapping (statistics), a method of calculating errors using only the data at hand as a distribution.
- Bootstrapping (law), a rule preventing hearsay in conspiracy cases.
- Bootstrapping (electronics), a form of positive feedback in analog circuit design.
- Bootstrapping (business), to start a business without external help (capital).
- Bootstrapping (finance), the method to create the spot rate curve.
- Bootstrapping (corporate finance), when a financial sponsor gains control of a majority of a target company's equity through the use of borrowed money or debt.
- Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century.
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