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initialisation

initialisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialization.

Meaning of initialization

Noun

initialization (countable and uncountable, plural initializations)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US, uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US, countable) An act of preparing something to begin.
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

Forms of initialisation

pluralinitialisations

Origin of initialisation

From initialise + -ation.

Words formed from initialisation

Phrases with initialisation

Words that rhyme with initialisation

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Questions about initialisation

What is initialisation the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of?
Initialisation is the non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialization.

Words near initialisation in the dictionary

  1. initialer
  2. initialers
  3. initialese
  4. initialing
  5. initialings
  6. initialisation
  7. initialisations
  8. initialise
  9. initialised
  10. initialiser
  11. initialisers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: initialisation (page history and authors); initialization (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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