verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialize. UK, alt-of, nonstandard
2. 2
   divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data wordnet
3. 3
   assign an initial value to a computer program wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

formatformatinitializeinitialize

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