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noun uncountable The process of preparing something to begin.
noun countable An act of preparing something to begin.
noun programming An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable
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noun (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
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initialize + -ation
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Initializing capture buffers -- Calling the function for initializing buffers by filling the video_queue_ops structure, and setting up buf_setup, buf_prepare, buf_queue, and buf_release methods, and then configuring the call initialization function by capture type
Initializing capture buffers -- Calling the function for initializing buffers by filling the video_queue_ops structure, and setting up buf_setup, buf_prepare, buf_queue, and buf_release methods, and then configuring the call initialization function by capture type
The WaitForInputIdle function waits for a process to finish its initialization, which is determined when it reaches a state where it is just sitting around waiting for messages.
I decided to call the initialization of the substitution tables Sbox [] and iSbox [] using the private helper methods BuildSbox and BuildInvSbox in the constructor.
The statistics of the weather make short term climate prediction very difficult - particularly for climate models that are not run with any kind of initialization for observations - this has been said over and over.
The top level in a QtRuby application usually only needs to perform some kind of initialization and then pass control to the Qt library, which then tells the program about the user's actions via events.
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