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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

初始计数

Pronunciation / Transliteration: chūshǐ jìshù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Initial-count/ɪˈnɪʃ.əl kaʊnt/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"实验前必须记录初始计数。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The starting quantity or numerical tally recorded at the beginning of a process, experiment, or observation period.

    "The laboratory technician recorded the initial-count of bacterial colonies before applying the treatment."
  2. 2

    The baseline measurement of items or elements prior to subsequent changes, depletion, or growth.

    "An inventory audit requires comparing the current stock against the initial-count taken on the first of the month."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'initial', originating from Latin 'initialis' (from 'initium' meaning beginning), and 'count', stemming from Old French 'conter' and Latin 'computare' (to calculate or reckon). Originally used in technical, scientific, and statistical contexts to denote the starting quantity before an experiment or process begins.

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