cold start

Engine's first awakening

A cold start is beginning from a completely inactive state.

An engine cold starts when it hasn't run recently and lacks residual heat, requiring more fuel and producing more emissions.

In computing, a cold start means booting a system from power-off rather than restarting.

The term extends to any situation lacking warm-up or prior momentum: The project was a cold start—no existing data, no established relationships.

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