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- noun Alternative spelling of
initialization .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (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
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The authors looked at one-year and three-year survival rates for patients diagnosed before the cancer plan (1996-2000), and during its "initialisation" (2001-03) and
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Please stop the initialisation of Hogmanay! on December 27, 2008 at 8: 33 am | Reply uphilldowndale toytowner, NYE and Hogmanay are not the same thing.
Battlecat On Boxing Day! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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When we create a new object Hal_Duncan as an instance of HumanBeing, an initialisation routine would be automatically run, creating two objects of the class Arm and assigning them to the attributes.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE Hal Duncan 2007
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For a start, it simplifies multiprocessor initialisation, since the initial load phase happens on a single processor.
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This makes things a bit simpler by putting more platform-specific stuff in one place; the same body of code that handles the bootstrap and system-initialisation process also contains the platform-specific code generator, in one 'lump', which reduces the management overhead somewhat.
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Despite simple instructions, several warnings and even telling the guy to keep both hands on the phone, he just kept adding random letters to the modem initialisation string field.
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Despite simple instructions, several warnings and even telling the guy to keep both hands on the phone, he just kept adding random letters to the modem initialisation string field.
Archive 2007-05-01 2007
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In their affidavit, the departments said that Glenister's application to the court to gain an urgent final interdict stopping the initialisation legislation intended to disband the Scorpions was
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I think my home modem is on its way out - the westnet guy had to make it do an initialisation string to make it work last night * cringe* ah well .. one of those things, at least my interwebby thing works at home again.
October 12th, 2005 mynxii 2005
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Put this after your FreshTags initialisation code, but before your :
Archive 2006-04-01 2006
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