Instantiation

Instantiation or instance may refer to:

Philosophy

A modern concept similar to participation in classical Platonism; see the Theory of Forms
The instantiation principle, the idea that in order for a property to exist, it must be had by some object or substance; the instance being a specific object rather than the idea of it
Universal instantiation
An instance (predicate logic), a statement produced by applying universal instantiation to a universal statement
Existential fallacy, also called existential instantiation
A substitution instance, a formula of mathematical logic that can be produced by substituting certain strings of symbols for others in formulae

Computing

Instance (computer science), referring to any running process, or specifically to an object as an instance of a class
Table instance (or database instance), a concept in database design; see Row (database)
Creation of an object (a location in memory having a value and possibly referenced by an identifier)
Instance can refer to a single virtual machine in a virtualized or cloud computing environment that provides operating-system-level virtualization

Library science

Instantiation of a class or object within the organization of a Body of knowledge.
For example, the instantiation class taxonomy within the Wikimedia project Wikisource generally refers to language classes.^[1]^[2]

Other uses

Instance dungeon, a feature of many online videogames

References

^ Indexing and Abstracting, Cleveland, 2013, ISBN 978-1-59884-976-9
^ Cataloging and classification, Mai Chan, 1994, ISBN 0-07-010506-5

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[1] Indexing and Abstracting, Cleveland, 2013, ISBN 978-1-59884-976-9

[2] Cataloging and classification, Mai Chan, 1994, ISBN 0-07-010506-5

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