instance
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnstəns/
The English word “instance” has 15 meanings listed here.
noun
- Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
- A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
- That which is urgent; motive.
- A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
- An occasion; an order of occurrence.
- A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
- One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
- A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
- 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.
- An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
- An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
verb
- To mention as a case or example; to refer to.
- To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
- To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) 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.
- To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
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