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  • verb Present participle of instantiate.

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Examples

  • It is because consistency in Hilbert's sense turns just on this abstract structure, and not on the contents of the terms instantiating the structure, that the reinterpretation strategy is effective.

    The Frege-Hilbert Controversy Blanchette, Patricia 2009

  • We are measuring how well an aim has been achieved in instantiating the MyBook class, how well an aim has been achieved in translating the MyNovel class to a MyBook class, how well an aim has been achieved in articulating the aesthetic standards applied in writing the book, and -- at its ultimate -- how well an aim has been achieved in the very selection of the aesthetic standards the writer has sought to articulate, how ambitious, how audacious these aesthetics are in terms of scope and acuity of insight.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • We are measuring how well an aim has been achieved in instantiating the MyBook class, how well an aim has been achieved in translating the MyNovel class to a MyBook class, how well an aim has been achieved in articulating the aesthetic standards applied in writing the book, and -- at its ultimate -- how well an aim has been achieved in the very selection of the aesthetic standards the writer has sought to articulate, how ambitious, how audacious these aesthetics are in terms of scope and acuity of insight.

    THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007

  • No, it will not make you gain weight and give you greasy fingers, but it will put a few things in motion (such as instantiating an object and calling a class).

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows Bravo77 2009

  • A Muslim cannot be whole as long as a non-Muslim cartoonist draws pictures in any variety of sorts that might disparage the god, apparently instantiating him on paper and destroying him.

    Muslims Try to Shut Down Property Rights of Tennessee Neighbor - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009

  • This means values must be provided when instantiating a cat more generically, calling a function.

    Simple Scala Keyword Parameters Jack Cough 2009

  • The author claims that living organisms are able to violate the Second Law by successfully instantiating Maxwell's Demon:

    An Interview with Elisabet Sahtouris 2007

  • This means values must be provided when instantiating a cat more generically, calling a function.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Jack Cough 2009

  • The rules that these idiot politicians are try to impose, not only interfears with the ruthless pragmatism as the critical and necessary pre-condition for instantiating battlefield tactics and military strategy, but outright endangers the mission by trying to psychologically habituate the soldiers condition... that in the end could end up costing him his life!

    Is Captain Robert Semrau being Scapegoated? membrain 2009

  • That's really all Chrome is doing - instantiating itself over and over as you open more and more tabs.

    Five Features We Want To See In Firefox | Lifehacker Australia 2009

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