noun
(computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position
• Syn: ↑low-level formatting, ↑initialisation
• Derivationally related forms: ↑initialise (for: ↑initialisation), ↑initialize
• Topics: ↑computer science, ↑computing
• Hypernyms: ↑format, ↑formatting, ↑data format, ↑data formatting
Useful english dictionary. 2012.