meaning of instantiates

1. instantiate instantiation 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 variables with either default values or those provided by the classs 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.
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"

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