initialisation

Questions about initialisation

What does initialisation mean?

initialisation means "(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".

How many syllables are in initialisation?

initialisation has 8 syllables and divides as i-ni-ti-a-li-sa-ti-on under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for initialisation?

Close synonyms include low-level formatting, initialization. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is initialisation a common word?

initialisation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.