initialisation

Definitions of initialisation
  1. 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
    synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting
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    type of:
    data format, data formatting, format, formatting
    the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing)
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