initialization

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initialization

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Alternative forms

• initialisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

From initialize +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

initialization (countable and uncountable, plural initializations) (American spelling, Oxford British English)

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

Derived terms

• deinitialization
• lazy initialization
• preinitialization
• reinitialization
• uninitialization

Translations

process

Finnish: alkuvalmistelu; (computing) alustaminen (fi) Romanian: inițializare f

act

Finnish: alkuvalmistelu; (computing) alustaminen (fi) Portuguese: inicialização (pt) f

programming: assignment of initial value of variable

Chinese: Mandarin: 初始化 (zh) (chūshǐhuà) Czech: inicializace f Finnish: alkuarvon asettaminen, alustaminen (fi) French: initialisation (fr) f German: Initialisierung (de) f Greek: αρχικοποίηση (el) f (archikopoíisi), έναρξη (el) f (énarxi) Icelandic: frumstilling f, frumgilding f Indonesian: inisialisasi (id) Japanese: 初期化 (ja) (しょきか, shokika) Korean: 초기화(初期化) (chogihwa) Portuguese: inicialização (pt) f Russian: инициализа́ция (ru) f (inicializácija) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: покретање n, иницијализација f Roman: pokretanje n, inicijalizacija (sh) f Turkish: ilklendirme