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instantiates

instantiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about instantiates

What is instantiates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Instantiates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of instantiate.

Words near instantiates in the dictionary

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

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