initialization order
nounUK /ɪˌnɪʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən ˈɔːdə/
US /ɪˌnɪʃələˈzeɪʃən ˈɔːrdər/
The order in which things are set up and made ready to use.
The program crashed because the initialization order of the variables was wrong.
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2. In programming, the sequence in which variables or objects are given their first values.
Static variables follow a fixed initialization order before the main function runs.
3. The order in which parts of a system are switched on and prepared.
The engineers checked the initialization order of the machines before the test.
4. The arrangement in which steps are completed at the beginning of a process.
Changing the initialization order made the setup much faster.