bootstrapping
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To help (oneself) without the aid of others.
“Sam spent years bootstrapping himself through college.”
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To load the operating system into the memory of a computer. Usually shortened to boot.
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To compile the tools that will be used to compile the rest of the system or program.
“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”
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To employ a bootstrap method.
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To expand or advance an activity or a collection based solely on previous actions, work, findings, etc.
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The process by which something is bootstrapped.
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Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bootstrap, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bootstrapping