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{{wiktionary|dropout}}

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'''Dropout''' or '''drop out''' may refer to:

* [[Dropping out]], prematurely leaving school, college or university

==[[Education]]==

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The term "dropout" means a [[student]] who quits school before graduation. Compare [[pushout]], a student counseled or forced out of school before graduation.

== Arts and entertainment ==

===Film and television===

* [[Dropout (film)|''Dropout'' (film)]], a 1970 Italian drama

* "The Dropout", [[List of The Brady Bunch episodes#Season 2 (1970–71)|a 1970 episode of ''The Brady Bunch'']]

* [[The Dropout (podcast)|''The Dropout'' (podcast)]], 2019 true crime podcast

** ''[[The Dropout]]'', a 2022 American miniseries based on the podcast

===Games===

Below are lists of people who succeeded despite having never completed their education:

* [[drop out (cards)]], to fold, i.e. to concede the current hand and take no further part in it

===Music===

=== Famous [[College dropout|College Dropouts]] ===

* [[Drop Out (song)|"Drop Out" (song)]], by Lil Pump, 2019

* "Drop Out," a song by Rocket from the Crypt from the 1995 album ''[[Scream, Dracula, Scream!]]''

* "Drop Out", a song by Converge from the 2004 album ''[[You Fail Me]]''

* "Drop Out", [[Music of Dance Dance Revolution Extreme|music of ''Dance Dance Revolution Extreme'']]

* ''[[Drop Out with The Barracudas]]'', by The Barracudas, 1981

* The Dropouts, an early incarnation of [[Priestess (band)]]

===Other===

* [[Bill Gates]]

* [[Dropout (streaming service)]], an American subscription media service provider owned by a company of the same name

* [[Brian Transeau]]

* ''The Dropouts'', an American comic strip by [[Howard Post]]

* [[Karl Rove]]

* [[Paul Allen]]

* [[Richard Li]]

* [[Rush Limbaugh]]

*[[Jennifer Lopez]]

* [[Steve Jobs]]

* [[Ted Turner]]

* [[Tucker Carlson]]

* [[Michael Moore]]

== Science and technology==

=== Famous High-school Dropouts ===

* [[Dropout (astronomy)]], a radiation source whose radiation intensity falls off sharply

* [[Dropout (bicycle part)]], a type of fork end

* [[Dropout (communications)]], a momentary loss of signal

* [[Dropout (neural networks)]], a regularization technique for reducing overfitting

== See also ==

* [[Quentin Tarantino]]

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* [[Demi Moore]]

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* [[Dave Thomas]]

* [[Drop out ceiling]], beneath existing fire sprinklers

* [[Michelle Branch]]

* [[Turn on, tune in, drop out]], a counterculture-era phrase popularized by Timothy Leary in 1966.

* [[Peter Jennings]]

* [[Kurt Cobain]]

* [[Bryan Adams]]

* [[Eminem]]

* [[Chris Rock]]

* [[Christina Aguilera]]

* [[Christina Applegate]]

* [[Kevin Bacon]]

* [[Drew Barrymore]]

* [[Sean Bean]]

* [[Pierce Brosnan]]

* [[Jennifer Capriati]]

* [[Jim Carrey]]

* [[Ray Charles]]

* [[Russell Crowe]]

* [[Tom Cruise]]

* [[Robert De Niro]]

* [[Johnny Depp]]

* [[Charles Dickins]] (elementary school dropout)

* [[Celine Dion]]

* [[Dale Earnhardt]]

* [[Thomas Edison]] (elementary school dropout)

* [[Colin Farrell]]

* [[Aretha Franklin]]

* [[Marvin Gaye]]

* [[Whoopie Goldberg]]

* [[Benny Hill]]

* [[Harry Houdini]]

* [[Peter Jackson]]

* [[Billy Joel]]

* [[Elton John]]

* [[B.B. King]]

* [[Jerry Lewis]]

* [[Sophie Marceau]]

* [[George Michael]]

* [[Marilyn Monroe]]

* [[Nelly (Cornell Haynes Jr.)]]

* [[Wayne Newton]]

* [[Al Pacino]]

* [[Rosa Parks]]

* [[Sydney Poitier]] (elementary school dropout)

* [[Richard Pryor]]

* [[Keanu Reeves]]

* [[William Shakespeare]]

* [[Frank Sinatra]]

* [[Miguel Tejada]]

* [[Charlize Theron]]

* [[John Travolta]]

* [[Elijah Wood]]

* [[The Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur]]

{{disambiguation}}

== [[Telecommunication]] ==

The term '''dropout''' has the following meanings:

# A momentary loss of [[signal]] in a [[communications system]]. This is usually caused by [[noise]], [[propagation]] anomalies, or system malfunctions.

# A [[failure]] to properly read a [[binary]] [[character (computing)|character]] from [[data]] [[storage]]. This is usually caused by a defect in the storage [[medium]] or by a malfunction of the read mechanism.

# In [[magnetic tape]], disk, card, or drum systems, a recorded signal with an amplitude less than a predetermined percentage of a reference signal.

Source: from [[Federal Standard 1037C]] and from [[MIL-STD-188]]

==[[Cycling]]==

See: [[dropout (bicycle part)]]

==[[Astronomy]]==

A dropout is a source whose radiation disappears shortward of a given filter.

Looking for dropouts is an usual method to look for high [[redshift]] galaxies.

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