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Bootstrap Operation

Mechanical Engineering Definition:
<i>Dynamic system operation in which, once a cycle has been started by external power, working fluid maintains a self-sustaining process.</i>

In other words, a system that, at first, requires a source to start, eventually becoming independent of that source.

The combustion engine that makes your car move is a bootstrap operation.

by Hoobleh June 26, 2006

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Hoobleh

Bleh blah in the hoobleh; used in the absence of an idea.

Bleh, blah, hoobleh!

by Hoobleh May 2, 2005

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