initialize

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=i=tial=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

initialize, v. t. 

 to assign an initial value to (a variable or set of variables in a computer program); as, many bugs are caused by a failure to initialize variables.  [WordNet 1.5]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

initialize, v.tr. (also -ise) (often foll. by to) Computing set to the value or put in the condition appropriate to the start of an operation.

Derivative

initialization n.