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noun
The process of preparing something to begin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable
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noun
An act of preparing something to begin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, English, Oxford, US, countable
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noun
An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, programming, sciences
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noun
(computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: low-level formatting, initialisation
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: format, formatting, data format, data formatting
History
Etymology tree English initialize Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin -ātiōlbor. Old French -ationbor. Middle English -acioun English -ation English initialization From initialize + -ation.
Across languages
27 source translations are retained for this English entry.
