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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialization. UK, alt-of, countable, nonstandard, uncountable
2. 2
   (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 wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

initializationlow level formattinglow-level formatting

Etymology

From initialise + -ation.

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