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Ab Initio
/ˌæb ɪˈnɪʃ.i.oʊ/
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What does Ab Initio mean?
adverb
- From the time when a law, legal right or decree, contract, ownership interest, partnership (etc.) comes into force.
- Calculated from first principles, i.e. from basic laws without any further additional assumptions.
- Taken with no prior qualifications.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌæb ɪˈnɪʃ.i.oʊ/
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/ˌæb əˈnɪt.i.oʊ//ˌɑb əˈnɪt.i.oʊ/
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Unless this happy faculty exists ab initio in the brain of the mechanical engineer, he will have a hard and disappointing life before him.
Much more commonly injury leads to the development of complementary formations, it may be the rejuvenescence of a hitherto dormant rudiment, or it may be the formation of such ab initio.