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n. The process of preparing something to begin.

n. An act of preparing something to begin.

n. An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

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n. (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

Word Usage

"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"

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data formatting format data format formatting

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