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What does initial mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word initial? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Chronologically first, early; of or pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin.
  2. Spatially first, placed at the beginning, in the first position; especially said of the first letter of a word.
Noun
  1. The first letter of a word or a name.
  2. In plural, the first letter of each word of a person's full name considered as a unit
  3. (typography, calligraphy) A distinguished initial letter of a chapter or section of a document.
  4. (phonology) onset, part of a syllable that precedes the syllable nucleus in phonetics and phonology.
Verb
  1. (transitive) to sign one's initial(s), as an abbreviated signature
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