instantiate

verb
/ɪnˈstænʃieɪt/UK

Etymology

From Latin instāntia + -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, instance + -ate.

  1. derived from instāntia + -ate

Definitions

  1. To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.

    • To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.
    • In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.
  2. To create an object (an instance) of a specific class.

    • To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at instantiate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at instantiate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at instantiate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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