Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To represent (an abstract concept) by a concrete or tangible example.
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- verb find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
- verb represent by an instance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What if writing test helpers requires instantiating dependencies that are difficult to instantiate, which is why you haven't bothered writing tests to begin with?
Archive 2007-10-01 Jack Cough 2007
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I use the word "instantiate" because the older word "manufacture" has the wrong etymology.
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Associated with the class are one or more methods and fields that are implemented in a specific language such as instantiate a class, you create an object (something real that can be executed in the computer).
SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications 2009
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Associated with the class are one or more methods and fields that are implemented in a specific language such as instantiate a class, you create an object (something real that can be executed in the computer).
SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications 2009
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Associated with the class are one or more methods and fields that are implemented in a specific language such as instantiate a class, you create an object (something real that can be executed in the computer).
SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications 2009
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Associated with the class are one or more methods and fields that are implemented in a specific language such as instantiate a class, you create an object (something real that can be executed in the computer).
SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications 2009
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Every type is assigned a number and then those numbers are used to 'instantiate' those types, by giving offsets/sizes of serialized blobs.
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Many thanks to Assistant Professor Rob Rupert for trying to "instantiate" this pitiful thing that he calls "philosophy."
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Many thanks to Assistant Professor Rob Rupert for trying to "instantiate" this pitiful thing that he calls "philosophy."
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Many thanks to Assistant Professor Rob Rupert for trying to "instantiate" this pitiful thing that he calls "philosophy."
ctenophile commented on the word instantiate
I believe that this word was dredged up by a computer scientist perhaps in the 1980s. It does not occur in my 1980s Oxford English Dictionary. The whole business of programming jargon diffusing into popular culture needs to be investigated by some hypercaffeinated lexicographer...
April 8, 2010
qroqqa commented on the word instantiate
All the quotations in the OED second edition (1989) are from philosophy, going back to 1949.
April 9, 2010