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instantiate
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As a verb, instantiate means represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.
Meanings of instantiate
3 meaningsverb
To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.
“To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.”
object-oriented programmingTo create an object (an instance) of a specific class.
“To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.”
Find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word)
“The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun that he claimed existed in a certain dialect”
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