0 an occasion when something starts: --
Lawyers for the couple have announced the initiation of divorce proceedings.
1 an occasion when someone is first introduced to an activity or skill: --
2 the act of beginning something: --
The initiation and carrying out of such a measure, he wrote, is absolutely necessary.
3 a special ceremony or responsibility that signals the acceptance of someone into a group: --
Of the remaining utterances, 23 (49 %) showed evidence of initiation.
One important step in the word learning process is the initiation of the creation of new representations.
Ascertainment of the extent of method continuation following the clinic initiation awaits a follow-up study of the city clinic drop-outs.
To accomplish this, specific training and practice were provided prior to initiation of the stimulus sentences.
The fate of female initiation was somewhat different.
Even the initiation rituals continued to include an emphasis on fertility and generational succession rather than on warrior ethos.
Initiation of the forcing was followed by the diffusive growth of a thermal boundary layer adjacent to the forcing surface.
However, initiation of phyllonitization during earlier deformation cannot be ruled out.
