instantiate

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For general control of instantiation, a subclass of the PersistenceDelegate class should be created with a specialized instantiate () method.

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  1. transitive verb To represent (an abstract concept) by a concrete or tangible example: "Two apples ... both instantiate the single universal redness” (J. Holloway).

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  • Servlets pass around HttpServletRequest and HttpServletResponse which are very hard to instantiate or mock. —  Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community
  • Associated with the class are one or more methods and fields that are implemented in a specific language such as instantiate a class, you create an object (something real that can be executed in the computer). —  SearchWinIT: News on enterprise Windows platforms and applications
  • My pages would have a minimal amount of code and the only thing this could would do is instantiate these classes. —  Clientcide (Formerly CNET's Clientside)
  • Sealed make sure that class won't be able to inherit (you may say Such mother who can't birth a baby: D) and through abstract class, we are able to define methods as abstract to make them must overrideable by child classes and don't let anyone to instantiate it. —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • For example, given a class Person, we can instantiate it to create an "instance" of that Person class. class Person (object): pass jonathan = Person () —  Planet Python
 

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  1. Latin īnstantia, example; see instance + -ate1.
 

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