Verb: instantiate in'stan-shi,eyt
- Represent by an instance
"This word instantiates the usage that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain dialect"
- 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"
- (programming) set up an instance of an object
"The programmer needed to instantiate the class before using its methods"
Derived forms: instantiating, instantiates, instantiated
Type of: detect, discover, find, notice, observe, represent
Encyclopedia: Instantiate