Associations to the word «Initialization»

Wiktionary

INITIALIZATION, noun. (uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
INITIALIZATION, noun. (countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
INITIALIZATION, noun. (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

Dictionary definition

INITIALIZATION, 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.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky