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Wellknown vs Init - What's the difference?

wellknown | init |

As an adjective wellknown

is (nonstandard).

As a noun init is

(computing).

As a verb init is

(computing).

wellknown

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (nonstandard)
  • * {{quote-news, year=2009, date=March 1, author=Mike Peed, title=The Persistence of Guilt, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Elie Wiesel has become so wellknown a crusader against hatred, violence and persecution that one can forget he has also been, from the beginning, a writer. }}

    init

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing)
  • After the sixth successive system init he had to concede that the database was corrupt.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (computing)
  • It actually only requires a few bytes to be zeroised to init the drive.
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