Dropout or drop out may refer to: *

Dropping out Dropping out refers to leaving high school, college, university or another group for practical reasons, necessities, inability, apathy, or disillusionment with the system from which the individual in question leaves. Canada In Canada, most in ...

, prematurely leaving school, college or university

Arts and entertainment

Film and television

* ''Dropout'' (film), a 1970 Italian drama * "The Dropout", a 1970 episode of ''The Brady Bunch'' * ''The Dropout'' (podcast), 2019 true crime podcast ** ''

The Dropout ''The Dropout'' is an American biographical drama television miniseries about the rise and fall of the disgraced biotechnology company Theranos and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, played by Amanda Seyfried. Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, it ...

'', a 2022 American miniseries based on the podcast

Games

drop out (cards) The following is a glossary of terms used in card games. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific (e.g. specific to bridge, hearts, poker or rummy), ...

, to fold, i.e. to concede the current hand and take no further part in it

Music

* "Drop Out" (song), by Lil Pump, 2019 * "Drop Out," a song by Rocket from the Crypt from the 1995 album ''

Scream, Dracula, Scream! ''Scream, Dracula, Scream!'' is an album by American punk rock band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1995 by Interscope Records. It was the band's first major-label release. Music videos were filmed for the singles " On a Rope," " Born in ...

'' * "Drop Out", a song by Converge from the 2004 album ''

You Fail Me ''You Fail Me'' is the fifth studio album by American metalcore band Converge, released on September 20, 2004 by Epitaph Records. The band's first release for the label, it was produced by Alan Douches and guitarist Kurt Ballou, with the artwork cr ...

'' * "Drop Out", music of ''Dance Dance Revolution Extreme'' * ''

Drop Out with The Barracudas ''Drop Out with The Barracudas'' is the debut studio album by English rock band The Barracudas, released in 1981 by record label Zonophone. The US version released on Voxx Records with an alternative cover features a revised track listing, repla ...

'', by The Barracudas, 1981 * The Dropouts, an early incarnation of

Priestess (band) Priestess is a Canadian rock band formed by singer/guitarist Mikey Heppner in Montreal, Quebec in 2002. Since its inception it has featured Heppner, singer/guitarist Dan Watchorn, singer/drummer Vince Nudo, and bassist Mike Dyball. Priestess were ...

Other

Dropout (streaming service) Dropout is an American comedy subscription streaming service run by the production company of the same name (formerly CollegeHumor), founded in September 2018. Its ad-free original shows are mainly composed of live play, such as ''Dimension 20' ...

, an American subscription media service provider owned by a company of the same name * ''The Dropouts'', an American comic strip by

Howard Post Howard Post (November 2, 1926 – May 21, 2010) Alternate source: "'Dropouts' cartoonist Howard Post dies in NJ at 83", Associated Press via ''The Washington Post'', May 24, 2010 was an American animator, cartoonist, and comic strip and comic bo ...

Science and technology

Dropout (astronomy) In astronomy, dropout is a radiation source whose radiation intensity falls off sharply below a specific wavelength. The source will be easily visible when its light is filtered to wavelengths longer than the cutoff value, but will "drop out" of t ...

, a radiation source whose radiation intensity falls off sharply *

Dropout (bicycle part) A fork end, fork-end, or forkend is a slot in a bicycle frame or bicycle fork where the axle of a bicycle wheel is attached. A dropout is a type of fork end that allows the rear wheel to be removed without first derailing the chain. Track bicyc ...

, a type of fork end *

Dropout (communications) A dropout is a momentary loss of signal in a communications system, usually caused by noise, propagation anomalies, or system malfunctions. For analog signals, a dropout is frequently gradual and partial, depending on the cause. For digital sig ...

, a momentary loss of signal *

Dropout (neural networks) Dropout and dilution (also called DropConnect) are regularization techniques for reducing overfitting in artificial neural networks by preventing complex co-adaptations on training data. They are an efficient way of performing model averaging wi ...