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| | instance - a Whatis.com definition - see also: instantiation, instantiate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | In programming, instantiation is the creation of a real instance or particular realization of an abstraction or template such as a class of objects or a computer process. |
 | | To instantiate is to create such an instance by, for example, defining one particular variation of object within a class, giving it a name, and locating it in some physical place. |
 | | 2) In the object-oriented programming language, Java, the object that you instantiate from a class is, confusingly enough, called a class instead of an object. |
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