initialization

/IH0 N IH1 SH AH0 L IH0 Z EY1 SH AH0 N/
noun
  1. 1

    The process of preparing something to begin.

  2. 2

    An act of preparing something to begin.

  3. 3

    An assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/initialization