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- 1 Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…]."
- 2 an item of information that is typical of a class or group wordnet
- 3 A token; a sign; a symptom or indication. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves."
- 4 an occurrence of something wordnet
- 5 That which is urgent; motive. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love."
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- 6 A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). countable, obsolete, uncountable
"The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner […]"
- 7 An occasion; an order of occurrence. countable, uncountable
"The Statutes, or Acts of Parliament themſelves. Theſe ſeem, as if in the Time of Edw[ard] I. they were drawn up into the Form of a Law in the firſt Inſtance, and ſo aſſented to by both Houſes, and the King, as may appear by the very Obſervation of the Contexture and Fabrick of the Statutes of thoſe Times."
- 8 A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. countable, uncountable
"August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet most remarkable instances of suffering"
- 9 One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same. countable, uncountable
"One's own death is an 'accidental' event, simply another instance of the general rule that human beings die."
- 10 A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming. countable, uncountable
"Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time."
- 11 A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players. countable, uncountable
"As long as the most difficult instance you've tried is Gnomeregan, you're never going to be credible talking about 'difficult encounters'."
- 12 An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area. countable, uncountable
"The instance is created for the group that enters it."
- 13 An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon. Internet, countable, uncountable
"To collect the messages, we select the mstdn.jp as the target instance. The mstdn.jp is one of the major Mastodon instances that has 123,331 users and connects to the 2415 other instances at 26 Feb 2017."
- 1 To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite transitive
"The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individual instance the general rule."
- 2 clarify by giving an example of wordnet
- 3 To cite an example as proof; to exemplify. intransitive
- 4 To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
"In these games, such as World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online, most significant PvP happens inside instanced or player-capped areas."
- 5 To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data. transitive
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
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