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1. | The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion. | |||||||||||||
2. | That which is instant or urgent; motive. | |||||||||||||
3. | Occasion; order of occurrence. | |||||||||||||
4. | That which offers itself or is offered as an illustrative case; something cited in proof or exemplification; a case occurring; an example; | |||||||||||||
5. | A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
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v. t. | 1. | To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite; | ||||||||||||
v. i. | 1. | To give an example. |
Noun | 1. | instance - an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" |
2. | instance - an item of information that is representative of a type; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" | |
Verb | 1. | instance - clarify by giving an example of Synonyms: illustrate, exemplify |
COURT, INSTANCE. One of the branches of the English admiralty is called an instance court. Vide Instance Court.
INSTANCE, civil and French law. It signifies, generally, all sorts of actions and judicial demands. Dig. 44, 7, 58.
(programming) | instance - An individual object of a certain class. While a class is just the type definition, an actual usage of a class is called "instance". Each instance of a class can have different values for its instance variables, i.e. its state. |