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 chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
Hippocrates