also boot-strap, tab or loop at the back of the top of a men's boot, which the wearer hooked a finger through to pull the boots on, 1870, from boot (n.) + strap (n.).
Circa 1900, to pull (oneself) up by (one's) bootstraps was used figuratively of an impossible task (Among the "practical questions" at the end of chapter one of Steele's "Popular Physics" schoolbook (1888) is, "30. Why can not a man lift himself by pulling up on his boot-straps?"). By 1916 its meaning expanded to include "better oneself by rigorous, unaided effort." The meaning "fixed sequence of instructions to load the operating system of a computer" (1953) is from the notion of the first-loaded program pulling itself, and the rest, up by the bootstrap.
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1. To use a bootstrap loader routine.
使用引导装入程序.
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2. The bootstrap process of intelligent power module ( IPM ) bootstrap circuit was analyzed.
对智能功率模块 ( IPM ) 自举电路的自举过程进行了分析.
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3. Computer Science To establish ( a program ) with a bootstrap.
运用辅助路径建 ( 一个程序 )
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4. Boot: To initiate operation of a computer with the Bootstrap program.
开机引导: 用引导程式使电脑进入操作状态.
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5. Numbers on each node are bootstrap values of 1 000 replicates.
