initialization

名词 initialization:

1. (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
   同义词：low-level formatting, initialisation

1. The initialization of a data medium such that a particular computer system can store data in and subsequently retrieve data from the medium.
   数据媒体的初始化，使某一特定计算机系统能将数据存在媒体中，随后又可从该媒体中检索出来。