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instantiate 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/inˈstanCHēˌāt/,
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instantiates, 3rd person singular present; instantiated, past tense; instantiated, past participle; instantiating, present participle;
  1. Represent as or by an instance
    • - a study of two groups who seemed to instantiate productive aspects of this
  2. (of a universal or abstract concept) Have an instance; be represented by an actual example


  1. represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
  2. (instantiation) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it; "how many instantiations were found?"
  3. (Instantiation (computing)) In computer science, an object is any entity that can be manipulated by the commands of a programming language, such as a value, variable, function, or data structure. ...
  4. To represent an abstract concept by a concrete instance; To create an object (an instance) of a specific class
  5. (Instantiation) creation of an object from a class, each object having a copy of its own (non-static) data members
  6. (9.13 Instantiation (of an <X> template)) An <X> produced from a given <X> template and other necessary information. This <X> exhibits the features specified in the <X> template. <X> can be anything that has a type (see 9.7).
  7. (Instantiation) Before it can be used, a see-through tool must be instantiated on a toolglass sheet. The tool may appear whenever this sheet is used, only when this sheet is in a particular temporary mode, or only when this sheet is in a particular position relative to the application. ...
  8. (Instantiation) Creating a thing from a representation of an abstraction denoting a set of such things.
  9. (Instantiation) In predicate logic, to remove a quantifier from a wff and either leave the previously bound variables free or replace them with constants. See generalization; quantifier.
  10. (Instantiation) Reference one set of geometry or hierarchy many times.
  11. (instantiation) An identifiable occurrence or occasion of something; in the case of Dublin Core, a specific occurrence of an information resource.
  12. (instantiation) Instantiating a Proximity model creates a new instance of the model using the specified or default values for the model’s parameters.
  13. (instantiation) The process of substituting specific data, instructions, or both into a generic program unit to make it usable in a computer program.
  14. The unholy offspring of "instant" and "substantiate," "instantiate" means to verify or document an instance of a particular behavior or issue.
  15. To run a program by making a single call to the program. The instructions that are executed together with the set of data produced by the unique call to the program are called an instance of the program.
  16. When a template is triggered by some part of the XML document being processed by the XSLT processor, the template is said to be instantiated.
  17. To make a run-time object in the NewtonScript heap from a template. Usually this term refers to the process of creating a view from a template. Source: NPG
  18. To create a variable out of a type, or to create a object out of a class.  Using an analogy, if you create a cookie from a recipe, you instantiate the recipe, which results in the cookie.  The cookie is an instance of the recipe. ...
  19. To instantiate a class is to make a new object from the class, an action that happens only at run time.
  20. to make an instance of a pattern, rule, or frame by substituting particular facts for variables in a pattern.
  21. To create an instance (a new object) of some class by invoking its constructor; analogous to a variable declaration.
  22. The process of making an object of a class, this involves declaring the object and memory being allocated to it.