Instantiate

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  instantiate
       v 1: represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage
            that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain
            dialect"
       2: 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"

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  instantiate
       
          {instantiation}