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instanciate

instanciate is the alternative form of instantiate.

Meaning of instantiate

Verb

instantiate (third-person singular simple present instantiates, present participle instantiating, simple past and past participle instantiated)

  1. (transitive) To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.
    • To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.
  2. (transitive, object-oriented programming) To create an object (an instance) of a specific class.
    • To instantiate a class, we call its constructor.

Forms of instanciate

third-person singular presentinstanciates
present participleinstanciating
past participleinstanciated
pastinstanciated

Questions about instanciate

What is instanciate the alternative form of?
Instanciate is the alternative form of instantiate.

Words near instanciate in the dictionary

  1. instanced
  2. instanced in
  3. instances
  4. instances in
  5. instanceth
  6. instanciate
  7. instanciated
  8. instanciates
  9. instanciating
  10. instanciation
  11. instancies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: instanciate (page history and authors); instantiate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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