Usually means: Beginning or starting something new.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. initiation: Merriam-Webster
  2. initiation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. initiation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. initiation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. initiation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Initiation, initiation: Wordnik
  7. initiation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. initiation: Wiktionary
  9. initiation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. initiation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. initiation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Initiation, initiation: Dictionary.com
  13. initiation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. initiation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Initiation (Course of Empire album), Initiation (The Office), Initiation (Theosophy), Initiation (Todd Rundgren album), Initiation (Tommy Emmanuel album), Initiation (chemistry), Initiation (disambiguation), Initiation, The Initiation (album), The Initiation (film), The Initiation (novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Initiation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. initiation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. initiation: Rhymezone
  19. Initiation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. initiation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. initiation: FreeDictionary.org
  22. initiation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. initiation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. initiation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initiation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initiation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. initiation: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Initiation: Africa Glossary
  3. A Dictionary Of WitchCraft (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. initiation: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced.
noun:  The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
noun:  (chemistry) The first step of transcription or of transduction.

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