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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Initialize
Hi.
What does 'initialize' meean in:
"You may also need to turn on the \"Initialise Engine When Page Loads\" option in your Chess Engine preferences for the engine to start on some operating systems."?
To give initial values or to start?
What does 'initialize' meean in:
"You may also need to turn on the \"Initialise Engine When Page Loads\" option in your Chess Engine preferences for the engine to start on some operating systems."?
To give initial values or to start?
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That's not really English, that's tech talk, or rather wanna-be-tech talk (jargon). In computer programming, things get initialized all the time. You can initialize a variable, meaning that you create it and give it a value to start with (an initial value).
- That's not really English, that's tech talk, or rather wanna-be-tech talk (jargon).
- In computer programming, things get initialized all the time.
- You can initialize a variable, meaning that you create it and give it a value to start with (an initial value).
- "Initialize" has come to mean something like "start up" among computer folks--it just sounds more technical.
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That's not really English, that's tech talk, or rather wanna-be-tech talk (jargon). In computer programming, things get initialized all the time. You can initialize a variable, meaning that you create it and give it a value to start with (an initial value). "Initialize" has come to mean something like "start up" among computer folks--it just sounds more technical.
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