Formaterer
Formaterer is the present tense of the Norwegian verb formaterere, meaning to apply a format to data or media or to prepare something according to a specified format. In everyday language it can refer to arranging the appearance and structure of a document, a dataset, or a storage device. The term is widely used in computing, publishing, and information technology to describe standardizing how content is presented or stored.
Formaterere derives from format, borrowed from English, with Norwegian adaptations and spelling conventions. The noun formater
In computing the most common use is disk formatting: erasing a storage device and creating a filesystem
See also format, formatting, formatters, and relevant Norwegian terms such as filformat and tekstformatering.