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initial

adj
/ɪˈnɪʃəl/

Etymology

From Middle French initial or directly from its Latin etymon initiālis (“of the beginning, incipient, initial”), from initium (“a going in, entrance, beginning”), from inire (“to go in, enter upon, begin”), from in (“in”) + ire (“to go”).

  1. borrowed from initial

Definitions

  1. Chronologically first, early

    Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.

    • Our initial admiration for their efficiency gave way to disgust about their methods.
    • The initial stages of a syndrome may differ vastly from the final symptoms.

  2. Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position

    Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.

    • The initial letter of names is usually printed with a capital letter.
    • Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

  3. The first letter of a word or a name, especially of a person's full name (their initials).

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.

    2. onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.

    3. To sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature.

      • Please initial each page and sign the contract in full at the bottom.

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Derived

coinitial, head-initial, initial caps, initial coin offering, initial condition, initially, initial mass function, initialness, initial object, initial point, initial public offering, initial reject, initial setting time, initial topology, initial-value problem, initial value problem, noninitial, peninitial, wordinitial, preinitial, initialese, initialism, initialist, initial teaching alphabet, middle initial

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at initial. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at initial. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at initial

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA