Meaning

3 senses
  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable)The process of preparing something to begin.

  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable)An act of preparing something to begin.

  3. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable, uncountable)An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

    Initialisierung

    инициализа́цияinicializácija

More definitions
  • (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

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Mutable objects can be changed after initialization; immutable objects cannot.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
programming: assignment of initial value of variable:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
programming: assignment of initial value of variable:

Forms

plural: initializations

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in 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:low-level formattinginitialisation

Word family

5 related words

See also

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