|  initialization 
 
 (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
 • Syn:
 low-level formatting, initialisation
 • Derivationally related forms:
 initialise (for: initialisation), initialize
 • Topics:
 computer science, computing
 • Hypernyms:
 format, formatting, data format, data formatting
 
 
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