Usually means: Erase data to ensure security.
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  1. zeroize: Merriam-Webster
  2. zeroize: Wiktionary

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  1. zeroize: CCI Computer

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Definitions from Wiktionary (zeroize)

▸ verb:  (nonstandard) To set, reset, or initialize something (especially a variable or parameter) to zero.

Similar:
zeroise, zero out, reset, zero, clear, zero in, tare, kill, deinitialize, uninitialize, more...

Opposite:
initialize, reset, restore, unerase

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Similar:
zeroise, zero out, reset, zero, clear, zero in, tare, kill, deinitialize, uninitialize, more...

Opposite:
initialize, reset, restore, unerase



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