to initialize
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6.6
- verb
- /ɪˈnɪʃəˌlaɪz/
- Specialized
:
formatear
- Countdown procedures for ra have been initialized and are in full effect.
Examples
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Initializing Ganali device.
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And we're going to go ahead and initialize our Optane SSD.
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Initialize masterbuild music.
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Initializing was the same thing as formatting, obliterating, erasing all of the data on the hard disk.
Fiction book (1990) -
The best prospects for supporting and improving seasonal ice prediction may well come from initializing model ensembles with the most current atmospheric, ocean, and ice analyses.
Academic text (2011) -
(There have been a few papers recently that have tried to make decadal predictions of the climate by trying to initialize the models with the current ocean conditions... and there is some hope that this is possible because the timescales for some of the ocean processes are long enough that the divergence from perturbed initial conditions may be slow enough to allow prediction of the climate noise a decade or so into the future.
Blog text (30) -
Figure 4b shows the ocean's meridional overturning as realized in a global circulation model in which the ocean was divided into 1 square and 60 vertical layers and integrated for only two years; in this case, the model was initialized to observed temperature and salinity distributions.
Academic text (1994) -
To use the new external hard drive, you first need to initialize it using the software provided.
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Before you can store any files, make sure to initialize the memory card in your camera.
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The technician explained that we would initialize the server to set it up for the first time.
Synonyms
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4.8
To prepare a disk for use by erasing its data
To set up a device or program so it is ready to use
How Ready
- Specialized
24
3.7
- Specialized
1
8.1
- Specialized
28
4.5
550
1.0
- Specialized
1
6.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Initialize comes from the part init-, which means 'beginning' or 'to start' and appears in initial. So to initialize a disk is to give it a new 'starting' state — to prepare it for use, which is why the process can erase old data.