(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.

It is easy to lose sight of one's initial objective, becoming caught up in subtasks or in tasks only tangentially related to the original goal.

Alternative spelling of initialization

Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of initialize.

present participle of initialise

simple past tense and past participle of initialise

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of initialise

(Britain) simple past tense and past participle of initial

(Britain) present participle of initial

(informal) Language that is rendered confusing by many initialisms.