How to pronounce “instance”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. [14th–19th c.]
• (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
• (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
• (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something). [16th–18th c.]
• An occasion; an order of occurrence.
• A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example. [from 16th c.]
• One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
• (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. [from 20th c.]
• (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.
• (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
• (Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
• (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
• (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.
• (transitive, computer graphics) To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.

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