ALL meanings of instantiation
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I i - noun instantiation The fact or act of producing an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc. 1
- verb with object instantiation to provide an instance of or concrete evidence in support of (a theory, concept, claim, or the like). 1
- noun Technical meaning of instantiation (programming) Producing a more defined version of some object by replacing variables with values (or other variables). 1. In object-oriented programming, producing a particular object from its class template. This involves allocation of a structure with the types specified by the template, and initialisation of instance variables with either default values or those provided by the class's constructor function. 2. In logic programming, when unification binds a logic variable to some value. 3. In type checking, when type inference binds a type variable to some type. 4. (multimedia) A specific representation of an object or artifact. Examples of instantiations would be different images of an object, text translated into English and French or a video and a still image of a museum piece. 1
- noun instantiation the act or an instance of instantiating 0
- noun instantiation the representation of (an abstraction) by a concrete example 0
- noun instantiation the process of deriving an individual statement from a general one by replacing the variable with a name or other referring expression 0
- noun instantiation the valid inference of an instance from a universally quantified statement, as David is rational from all men are rational 0
- noun instantiation a statement so derived 0