Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The process of preparing something to begin.
- noun countable An act of preparing something to begin.
- noun programming An
assignment of aninitial value for a data object orvariable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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 position
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word initialization.
Examples
-
Initializing capture buffers -- Calling the function for initializing buffers by filling the video_queue_ops structure, and setting up buf_setup, buf_prepare, buf_queue, and buf_release methods, and then configuring the call initialization function by capture type
-
Initializing capture buffers -- Calling the function for initializing buffers by filling the video_queue_ops structure, and setting up buf_setup, buf_prepare, buf_queue, and buf_release methods, and then configuring the call initialization function by capture type
-
The WaitForInputIdle function waits for a process to finish its initialization, which is determined when it reaches a state where it is just sitting around waiting for messages.
The Old New Thing oldnewthing 2010
-
I decided to call the initialization of the substitution tables Sbox [] and iSbox [] using the private helper methods BuildSbox and BuildInvSbox in the constructor.
-
Next, the constructor method of the class will call the initialization of the native menu.
-
I use the same blank-space byte array to supply a value for the so-called initialization vector.
-
This is called dynamic initialization, in contrast to static initialization, which is done otherwise.
doggdot.us 2008
-
The statistics of the weather make short term climate prediction very difficult - particularly for climate models that are not run with any kind of initialization for observations - this has been said over and over.
RealClimate 2009
-
AVIDemux to convert the video to standard parameter AVI, but I got some kind of initialization error from AVIDemux.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2009
-
The top level in a QtRuby application usually only needs to perform some kind of initialization and then pass control to the Qt library, which then tells the program about the user's actions via events.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.