instance

/ˈɪnstəns/

noun

  1. 1

    Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.

  2. 2

    A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

    “It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602”
  3. 3

    That which is urgent; motive.

  4. 4

    Occasion; order of occurrence.

  5. 5

    A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.

  6. 6

    One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.

  7. 7

    A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).

  8. 8

    A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.

  9. 9

    (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.

  10. 10

    (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.

verb

  1. 1

    To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite

  2. 2

    To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

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