initialization

English

Alternative forms

• initialisation (non-Oxford British English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

English initialize

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin -ātiōlbor.

Old French -ationbor.

Middle English -acioun

English -ation

English initialization

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

  Latin: pokretanje n, inicijalizacija (sh) f

• Turkish: ilklendirme
• Vietnamese: khởi tạo