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instantiating

instantiating is the present participle and gerund 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 instantiating

What is instantiating the present participle and gerund of?
Instantiating is the present participle and gerund of instantiate.

Words near instantiating in the dictionary

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

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