instantiation

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instantiation - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  instantiation
      n 1: a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of
           it; "how many instantiations were found?"

instantiation - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  instantiation
  instantiate
  
     <programming> 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 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)