instantiation : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: instantiation	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
instantiation n a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it; "how many instantiations were found?"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
instantiation Producing a more defined version of some object by replacing variables with values (or other variables). 1. In {object-oriented programming}, producing a particular {object} from its {class template}. This involves allocation of a structure with the types specified by the template, and initialisation of {instance variable}s with either default values or those provided by the class's {constructor} function. 2. In {unification}, (as used in {logic programming}, {type checking} and {type inference}), binding a {logic variable} ({type variable}) to some value (type). (1995-03-28)