(category theory) An object within a category which sends out arrows to all other objects in that category, and such that each of these arrows is unique.

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

plural of initial point

plural of initial object

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

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

Alternative form of wordinitial

(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.

plural of initial reject

(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.