initialize

verb
/ɪˈnɪʃəlaɪz/

Etymology

From initial + -ize.

  1. borrowed from initial
  2. suffixed as initialize — “initial + ize

Definitions

  1. To assign initial values to something.

  2. To assign an initial value to a variable.

  3. To format a storage medium prior to use.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.

    2. To reduce (a phrase) to an initialism, or a word to its initial.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for initialize. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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