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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of instantiate.

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Examples

  • #13: It's assumed that this call instantiates an InitialDirContext supplying it the initial context factory class parameter set on the lines 07-08

    Javalobby - The heart of the Java developer community malyvelky 2010

  • To continue the example from above, HTTP "instantiates" the REST uniform interface with a particular one, consisting of the HTTP verbs.

    Netvouz - new bookmarks cduret 2010

  • In this process, the JavaScript engine prepares ( "instantiates") the local variables, local functions declarations, and arguments to the function call etc. so that these variables are accessible during execution.

    Latest News from AJAX & RIA Journal 2008

  • (and Specter's?) perspective, this would be just another example of the extent to which the Constitution, "correctly interpreted," instantiates "constitutional dictatorship."

    Balkinization 2008

  • Because Chrome instantiates itself every time you open a new tab (i.e. you can have 5 tabs open in Chrome and, sure enough, you will have 5 entries of "chrome. exe" in Windows Task Manager), it doesn't make any difference whether you have one copy with two tabs open or two copies with one tab each open.

    Chrome Dual View Lets You Split Chrome In Two | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • It instantiates martial values throughout the culture from education to entertainment, and inculcates a notion of heroic masculinity that permits the perpetuation of patriarchy.

    Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Randall Amster 2010

  • It instantiates martial values throughout the culture from education to entertainment, and inculcates a notion of heroic masculinity that permits the perpetuation of patriarchy.

    Randall Amster: WikiLessons: War Is a Joke, But It Isn't Funny Randall Amster 2010

  • The intent and design of such a system should not be to in some way make everybody the same, but rather to foster creativity and diversity among its members, so that each person in a society instantiates, and represents, a unique perspective, based on personal experience and insight, constituting a valuable contribution to the whole.

    Stephen Downes: Fairness and Equity in Education Stephen Downes 2010

  • My sone Pat certainly thinks that grass is green, but he has no idea that that is true (according to a realist) that the truth of this thought entails that grass instantiates a universal.

    An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings 2008

  • Part V considers the implications of the possibility that the "privileges or immunities clause" instantiates what might be called a failure of constitutional communication, considering the possibility of a saving or mending construction of the clause.

    Solum on Incorporation and Originalist Theory Mary L. Dudziak 2009

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