Relating to or involving initiation (into a religious group, spiritual status, etc).

(linguistics) A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, which is itself pronounced letter by letter.

plural of initiative

To assign initial values to something / (computing) To assign an initial value to a variable / (computing) To format a storage medium prior to use

The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced

(uncountable) The process of preparing something to begin. / (countable) An act of preparing something to begin. / (programming) An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

A new member of an organization. / One who has been through a ceremony of initiation. / One who is oriented in and familiar with a topic or subject, especially one who is expert in it.

(obsolete) Unpractised; untried; new. / (obsolete) Begun; commenced; introduced to, or instructed in, the rudiments; newly admitted.

simple past tense and past participle of initiate

Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary. / In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.