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instantiated

instantiated is the simple past and past participle 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.

Words formed from instantiated

Questions about instantiated

What is instantiated the simple past and past participle of?
Instantiated is the simple past and past participle of instantiate.

Words near instantiated in the dictionary

  1. instantiable
  2. instantial
  3. instantially
  4. instantiatable
  5. instantiate
  6. instantiated
  7. instantiates
  8. instantiating
  9. instantiation
  10. instantiations
  11. instantiator

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