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INITIALISATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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 positionplay

Synonyms:

initialisation; initialization; low-level formatting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("initialisation" is a kind of...):

data format; data formatting; format; formatting (the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing))

Domain category:

computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)

Derivation:

initialise (divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data)

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