plural of initial object

plural of initial point

In surveying, the point where the principal meridian crosses the baseline.

Alternative form of wordinitial

(linguistics) Having the head (primary morpheme) at the beginning of a phrase.

(manufacturing) An item that is not terminally defective but fails to meet the manufacturer's technical standards for sale through its normal retail channels.

(journalism, typography) A variant of title case in which every word begins with an upper-case letter and its other letters are lower-case.

plural of initial reject

(topology) Given a set X, a family of topological spaces (M_i,T_i)_(i∈I) and a family of functions f_i:X→M_i, the initial topology is the coarsest topology on X such that all f_i are continuous.

(business, finance) The first offering to members of the public of stock in a company, normally followed by a listing of that stock on a stock exchange.