Associations to the word «Instance»

Wiktionary

INSTANCE, noun. (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. [14th-19th c.]
INSTANCE, noun. (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
INSTANCE, noun. (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
INSTANCE, noun. Occasion; order of occurrence.
INSTANCE, noun. A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. [from 16th c.]
INSTANCE, noun. One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
INSTANCE, noun. (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). [16th-18th c.]
INSTANCE, noun. (computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class. [from 20th c.]
INSTANCE, noun. (massively multiplayer online games) 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.
INSTANCE, noun. (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
INSTANCE, verb. (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; as, to instance a fact.
INSTANCE, verb. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
INSTANCE DUNGEON, noun. (online gaming) In massively multiplayer online games an instance of a given dungeon generated exclusively for a specific player or party of players; contrast to the overworld, shared by all players on the server.
INSTANCE DUNGEONS, noun. Plural of instance dungeon
INSTANCE IN, verb. (rare) To cite an instance; to adduce an example.
INSTANCE VARIABLE, noun. (software) (object-oriented) A member variable that is associated with a class for which each object of the class has a separate copy.
INSTANCE VARIABLES, noun. Plural of instance variable

Dictionary definition

INSTANCE, noun. An occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths".
INSTANCE, noun. An item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10".
INSTANCE, verb. Clarify by giving an example of.

Wise words

The pen is mightier than the sword.
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton