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INITIALIZATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(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
Synonyms:
initialisation; initialization; low-level formatting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("initialization" is a kind of...):
data format; data formatting; format; formatting (the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing))
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Derivation:
initialize (divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data)
initialize (assign an initial value to a computer program)
