(linguistics) An existing acronym which has been redefined as a nonacronymous name, severing its link to its previous meaning.

Alternative spelling of lazy initialisation

Alternative form of wordinitial

Alternative form of take the initiative.

(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.

(astronomy) a relationship that specifies the mass distribution of a newly formed stellar population

(historical) A system proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983, to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

(calculus) the problem of solving a (set of) ordinary differential equations accompanied by the requirement that the function sought (and possibly also one or more of its derivatives), taken for some value, equals some other specific value; graphically, (for example) the problem of finding that antiderivative of some function that passes through a particular point

plural of initial public offering

A type of funding using cryptocurrencies.