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initialized

initialized is the simple past and past participle of initialize.

Meaning of initialize

Verb

initialize (third-person singular simple present initializes, present participle initializing, simple past and past participle initialized)

  1. (British, English, Oxford, US) To assign initial values to something.
  2. (British, English, Oxford, US) To assign an initial value to a variable.
  3. (British, English, Oxford, US) To format a storage medium prior to use.
  4. (British, English, Oxford, US) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.
  5. (British, English, Oxford, US, dated) To reduce (a phrase) to an initialism, or a word to its initial.

Words formed from initialized

Questions about initialized

What is initialized the simple past and past participle of?
Initialized is the simple past and past participle of initialize.

Words near initialized in the dictionary

  1. initialists
  2. initializable
  3. initialization
  4. initializations
  5. initialize
  6. initialized
  7. initializer
  8. initializers
  9. initializes
  10. initializing
  11. initialled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: initialized (page history and authors); initialize (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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