Usually means: Set up starting conditions, parameters.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word initialize:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. initialize: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. initialize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. initialize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. initialize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. initialize: Vocabulary.com
  6. Initialize, initialize: Wordnik
  7. initialize: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. initialize: Wiktionary
  9. initialize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. initialize: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. initialize: Dictionary.com
  12. initialize: Rhymezone
  13. initialize: Free Dictionary
  14. initialize: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. initialize: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Initialize: Game Dictionary
  2. initialize: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. initialize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initialize: Medical dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See initialization as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To assign initial values to something.
verb:  (computing) To assign an initial value to a variable.
verb:  (computing) To format a storage medium prior to use.
verb:  (computing) To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.
verb:  (somewhat dated) To reduce (a phrase) to an initialism, or a word to its initial.

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