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instantiate
  1. (transitive) To represent (something) by a concrete instance. [from 20th c.]
  2. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create an object (an instance) of a specific class. [from 20th c.]
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  4. Examples:
    1. “These semantic parameters instantiate nonlocal connections between distant semantic fields and create a complex web of mutual influences.”
      “One then could know a priori through the mentally instantiated property the features of triangles, which instantiate triangularity.”
      “Kirby provides us with a clear example of how these non-white characters instantiate the nobility of the white loyalist's enterprise.”
instance
  1. (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
  2. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Among those who, in former times, were the leaders in the movement onward, it would be wrong not to instance the names of such honored men as Mather, Edwards, Davies, Finley, and Tennent.”
      “He chose to instance his miracles in actions of mercy.”
instantiates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of instantiate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In all facets of its being, the monster instantiates the limits of the thinkable.”
      “The designer then instantiates root modules to represent the entire device being modeled.”
      “Its poetics of indeterminacy dissolves centres and borders and instantiates a refigured poetics of the body.”
instances
instanceth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of instance
instantiated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of instantiate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Social and business rules can be codified and instantiated within technology.”
      “In that case, to say that P is instantiated by x is to just say that P is compresent with itself.”
      “Unlike standard Java servlets, presentation objects are instantiated once for each HTTP request.”
instanced
  1. simple past tense and past participle of instance
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He instanced the plight of a young lad who got planning permission for a site on his father's land near Rakestreet but could not get water.”
      “Marine leisure activities have some potential, however, as instanced by the new marina in Caherciveen.”
      “This was a popular design for library bookcases in particular, as instanced by Plate 92 in the 1762 edition of Chippendale's Director.”
instantiating
  1. present participle of instantiate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “God offers to the life-process opportunities for instantiating new forms of order, but these are not forcefully imprinted on living beings.”
      “By instantiating these operators with proper knowledge at different levels of abstraction, spatial aggregation allows specification of a variety of application programs.”
      “The individual substance itself, falling under or instantiating the complete concept, just is the nature or haecceity.”
instancing
  1. present participle of instance
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Vertex instancing allows the geometry for say, 100 of these models to be batched into an array, and sent down all at once.”
      “He also reminded them of the devastation that a single disease could cause by instancing the 30-40 million deaths brought about less than 100 years ago by influenza.”
      “There are certain disadvantages as well and because of that Bounty Bay Online uses instancing only in certain areas of the game.”
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