instantiation

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instantiation

20th-century coinage from instantiate +‎ -tion, itself coined 1946 from instance +‎ -ate. The latter, in the sense "a case, an example", from Middle English instance, from Medieval Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence; also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from Latin īnstāns (“urgent”); see English instant.^[1]

instantiation (countable and uncountable, plural instantiations)

(uncountable) The production of an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc.
(countable) Something resulting from the act of instantiating; an instance.
- 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 150:
  I can name numerous instantiations of this gift of luck at work in my hostʼs life.
(by extension, object-oriented programming) Creation of an instance of some class or template.

Terms etymologically related to instantiation

something resulting from the act of instantiating