Instantiation

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  instantiation
       n : a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of
           it; "how many instantiations were found?"

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



  instantiation
       
           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 variable}s with either default
          values or those provided by the class's {constructor}
          function.
       
          2. In {unification}, (as used in {logic programming}, {type
          checking} and {type inference}), binding a {logic variable}
          ({type variable}) to some value (type).
       
          (1995-03-28)