initialization

English

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

Related terms

• lazy initialization

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)
• Portuguese: inicialização (pt) f
• Russian: инициализа́ция (ru) f (inicializácija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: покретање n, иницијализација f

  Roman: pokretanje n, inicijalizacija (sh) f

• Turkish: ilklendirme