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Definition: Initialisation |
InitialisationNoun1. (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. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Initialisation" is a common misspelling or typo for: initialization. |
Synonyms: InitialisationSynonyms: initialization (n), low-level formatting (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Initialisation |
| Specialty definitions using "initialisation": .cshrc ♦ control word ♦ functional requirements ♦ i860, installer ♦ SoftModem. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Initialisation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (initialization). |
| "Initialisation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Initialisation" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "initialisation": initialisation vector ♦ initialisation word. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
11 dispatcher error initialisation | 3 |
failed initialisation session | 3 |
initialisation processor | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "initialisation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 初始化 (initialise, initialization, initialize). (various references) | |
Danish | initieringsvektor (initialisation vector), initialiseringsmodus (initialisation mode). (various references) | |
Dutch | initialisation vector (initialisation vector). (various references) | |
Finnish | alustustila (initialisation mode, initialization mode). (various references) | |
French | motif d'initialisation (initialisation vector), mot d'initialisation (initialisation word, initialization word), modificateur d'initialisation (initialisation modifier, initialization modifier), mode d'initialisation:IM (initialisation mode, initialization mode). (various references) | |
German | Initialisierungsvektor (initialisation vector), Vorbereitungsbetrieb (initialisation mode, initialization mode). (various references) | |
Greek | IM,λειτουργία εκκίνησης (initialisation mode). (various references) | |
Italian | inizializzazione (initialization). (various references) | |
Korean | 초기 설정 (initialization). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | initialisationay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | modo de iniciação (initialisation mode, initialization mode). (various references) | |
Spanish | vector de inicialización (initialisation vector), modalidad de inicialización (initialisation mode, initialization mode). (various references) | |
Swedish | initialiseringsmod (initialisation mode). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-t-t" | |
-3 letters: initiations, nationalist. | |
-4 letters: initiation, sanitation. | |
-5 letters: atonalist, natations, nationals, saltation, santolina, satiation, siltation, stational. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-i-i-i-l-n-n-o-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: initializations. | |
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