initialise

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Thanks, I assumed those would need a whole series of windows drivers to initialise them.

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assign an initial value to a computer program

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verb

assign an initial value to a computer program

verb

divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for initialise.

verb

assign an initial value to a computer program

verb

divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data; "Please format this disk before entering data!"

Example sentences

Thanks, I assumed those would need a whole series of windows drivers to initialise them.

I generally have more stuff to initialise for my projects than just the virtualenv.

The kernel also needs patches to know how to initialise an ARM device, and those patches need to be forward-ported.

You don't use a connection pool to get rid of allocs and frees, but to get rid of lengthy calls that initialise the connection.

Another positive side-effect is that the USB drivers seem to take a rather long time to initialise, so booting is much faster without them.

When you initialise parsing for a new sentence, you can select a subset of the possibilities to generate a "submodel" for only that sentence.

Explicitly initialise shared resources in one thread either from main, or if you're writing a shared library, the explicit initialisation function you'll have to add anyway if the library is properly designed.

I have never read the C standard and don't know off the top of my head what happens when you fail to initialise a static vs auto variable, but I don't really care because I would never write code which relies on whatever the implicit behaviour is.