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bootstrap

In business, an offer to acquire a controlling interest in a company for cash. This is usually followed by an offer to purchase all outstanding shares at a discounted price.

The term is also used to refer to a company that is started up with very little capital, with the intention of meeting costs out of operating revenues.



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For that reason and because it is much less difficult to compute, we used bootstrapping to determine the BMDLs for the other three end points (Table 3).
The term bootstrapping refers to the use of an amplifier to increase the apparent impedance using near unity gain positive feedback [3,4].
Instead, they used a newer statistical technique called bootstrapping (SN: 7/27/91, p.
 
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