Instantiate

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance. transitive

    "To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document."

  2. 2
    find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word) wordnet
  3. 3
    To create an object (an instance) of a specific class. transitive

    "To instantiate a class, we call its constructor."

  4. 4
    represent by an instance wordnet

Etymology

From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.

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