instance

IPA: ˈɪnstʌns

(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
Occasion; order of occurrence.
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
(computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
(massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
(Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.

(transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
(intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
(massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.

Examples of "instance" in Sentences

$instance: The SQL Server instance on the server specified in $server.
Twitter:: Base. new (httpauth) end def self. instance return @@instance end end
What you have in this instance is a right to not be subject to unreasonable search and siezure.
• Verify that the action defines the title instance variable and fills it with the correct value.
The truth is that "clean energy" in this instance is code for "clean coal" an oxymoron if there ever was one, gas and nuclear power.
The $instance value is derived from user input when the script is first called. databases: The collection of databases available on the instance specified in
Daley's not even as entertaining as his father, Richard J. Daley, whose speech impediments churned out some of the most memorable malapropisms in American history: "He's a man of great statue" and "The policeman isn't here to create disorder, he's here to preserve dis order" (dis in the second instance is Chicagoese for "this".)