BOOTSTRAPPING

As an allusion to lifting oneself up by one's own bootstraps, the term '''bootstrapping''' means using a special process to perform a task that one would be unable to do in general. In particular, it is used in the following contexts:

★ Bootstrapping (computing), starting a computer or building complex tools after building simple tools that allow for the creation of the more complex tools. Shortened to booting to describe the process of starting up a computer.

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★ Bootstrapping (compilers), writing a compiler for a computer language using the language itself.

★ 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.

★ Bootstrapping (science fiction), giving advanced technology to a race less technologically advanced than one's own.

★ Operation Bootstrap ("Operación Manos a la Obra") is the name given to the ambitious projects which industrialized Puerto Rico in the mid-20th century.

★ William "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, a character in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' film series.

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★ Hermeneutic circle

★ Bootstrapping Business