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English noun: initialization

1. initialization (communication) (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


Synonymsinitialisation, low-level formatting


Broader (hypernym)data format, data formatting, format, formatting


Domain categorycomputer science, computing









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