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Definition of Initialise

1. Verb. Assign an initial value to a computer program.

2. Verb. Divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data. "Please format this disk before entering data!"

Definition of Initialise

1. Verb. (British) (alternative spelling of initialize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Initialise

initial objects initial offering initial point initial points initial public offering initial rate initial rhyme initial velocity initialed initialer

initialers initialese initialing initialisation initialisations initialise (current term) initialised initialiser initialisers initialises

initialising initialism initialisms initializable initialization initializations initialize initialized initializer initializers

Literary usage of Initialise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Inform Designer's Manual by Graham Nelson (2001)
"The return value from initialise is ordinarily ignored, whether true or false ... If you do suppress the banner from initialise, you should print it no more ..."

2. The Latin primer by Richard Lyne (1825)
"Let the learner attend to this ellipsis, both initialise it frequently occurs, and because it is elegant in its use, the pronoun in Latin being very rarely ..."

3. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1868)
"... with the gold letters AP over it, is intended to represent this land of promise, our great country, Amerika ; and the gold letters AP initialise it ..."

4. Denmark: A Cooperative Commonwealth by Frederic Clemson Howe (1921)
"The initialise of the people has been awakened by Bother rewards than great wealth. And it finds ample opportunity to play through the thousands of ..."

5. The Logical Bases of Education by James Welton (1899)
"It is not, however, only in these higher initialise realms of knowledge that the indirect method is the Method. only one available, and we shall first ..."

6. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1872)
"Every member shall have a contribution card on which the officer shall note the date of receiving and the amount of the contributions, and initialise the ..."

7. 3-D Deterministic Radiation Transport Computer Programs: Features by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (1997)
"In addition, since scratch files are only used once to initialise problem input, the impact to parallel performance is low. ..."

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