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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne