The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
The initial portion of some extended thing.
That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
That which begins or originates something; the source or first cause.
Of or relating to the first portion of some extended thing.
The act of conducting or carrying out (business, negotiations, plans).
A social interaction.
A record of the proceedings of a learned society.
An exchange or trade, as of ideas, money, goods, etc.
A deal or business agreement.
The transfer of funds into, out of, or from an account.
An atomic operation; a message, data modification, or other procedure that is guaranteed to perform completely or not at all (e.g. a database transaction).