instance
- noun
- /ˈɪnstəns/
- Specialized
- To efficiently manage resources, we need to monitor each instance running on our servers.
- EC2 instances
- two EC2 instances
And it runs two separate instances of Star Wars Battlefront.
- And it runs two separate instances of Star Wars Battlefront.
- If you consider a neural net being alive when there's an API running instances of it on GPU's, right?
Examples
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In these instances, the interviewer retrieved these values from the child's last doctor's visit.
Academic text (2012) -
So we can go and get an OSC instance here as well.
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Those are the variables associated with each instance of the class.
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All objects that are instances of the class will have the same structure.
Academic text (1992) -
Then you are doing this method call and it returns you a new instance of Integer.
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All the constructs represent sets or types of object instances, as opposed to individual instances themselves.
Academic text (1990) -
There is no doubt that specific instances of coastal management regulations with illegitimate purposes exist.
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The first successful instance of brokered representation involving a post of significance did not come until 1973.
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Upgrading all instances of PKI is a systemic issue, since various PKIs involve different structures and purposes.
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When you launch an application, it creates an instance of the program in your operating system.
Idioms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Instance originally meant a single 'case' that 'stands' on its own, from an old root meaning 'to stand', like stand. That's why in computing an instance is one running 'copy' of a machine or service that runs on its own.