instantiation
Meanings
Plural: instantiations
Noun
- a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it
- "how many instantiations were found?"
- The production of an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc.
- Something resulting from the act of instantiating; an instance.
- Creation of an instance of some class or template.
Origin / Etymology
20th-century coinage from instantiate + -ion, itself coined 1946 from instance + -ate. The latter, in the sense "a case, an example", from Middle English instance, from Medieval Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence; also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from Latin īnstāns (“urgent”); see English instant.
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