instance
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.Examples: "I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…]."; "[…]undertook at her instance to restore them."; "It was settled, as long ago as the first Congress, at the instance of Madison, then in the Senate, and by the deciding vote of John Adams, then Vice-President, that even where the advice and consent of the Senate was necessary to the appointment of an officer, the President had the absolute power to remove him without consulting the Senate."countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.Examples: "It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves."countableobsoleteuncountable
3. (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.Examples: "The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love."countableobsoleteuncountable
4. (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).Examples: "The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner […]"countableobsoleteuncountable
5. (computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.Examples: "Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time."countableuncountable
6. (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.Examples: "As long as the most difficult instance you've tried is Gnomeregan, you're never going to be credible talking about 'difficult encounters'."; "For example, when a team of five players enters the Sunken Temple instance in World of Warcraft, they will battle many monsters, but they will not encounter other players even though several teams of players may be experiencing the Sunken Temple at the same time."; "Beating a difficult instance becomes second nature after running through it…a few times, with good leaders knowing exactly what to do and how to co-ordinate member actions."countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to citeExamples: "The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individual instance the general rule."; "Mr. BENSON estimated the amount of guano on Jarvis' Island at 5,000,000 tons, and on Baker's Island at no less. He instanced experiments to show that it was in no way inferior to the best Peruvian article. Another company had lately been formed to bring guano from still other islands lately discovered."; "District Veterinary Surgeon Hutchinson's report from Newcastle is again worthy of notice, as instancing the difficulty of suppression of contagious disease under the disturbed conditions now existing in the northern part of the Colony."transitive
2. (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.intransitive
3. (massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.Examples: "In these games, such as World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online, most significant PvP happens inside instanced or player-capped areas."; "This is an improvement compared to contemporary MMORPG which combine zoning and instancing, whereas replication is currently not available for a combination with either of them. Zoning (Cai, Xavier, Turner, & Lee, 2002; Macedonia, Zyda,[…]"; "Instanced encounters standard in today's MMORPGs, but the lack of instancing in early EverQuest meant that the guild (a team of players operating as a team) or group(s) of players who raced to and engaged a target first could claim the[…]"
4. (transitive, computer graphics) To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary