Ab initio
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The Latin term ab initio means from the beginning and is used in several contexts:
- when describing literature: told from the beginning as opposed to in medias res (meaning starting in the middle of the story)
- as a legal term: See list of legal terms
- in science: A calculation is said to be "ab initio" (or "from first principles") if it relies on basic and established laws of nature without additional assumptions or special models.
- in Chemistry: an abbreviation referring to ab initio quantum chemistry methods
- in aviation: The very first stage of flight training.
- as part of some educational qualifications: foreign languages may be taken ab initio - for beginners.
- in extract, transform, load: Ab Initio is a tool used to manipulate data.
