instantiation
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9.3
- noun
- /ˌɪnstəntiˈeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
instanciación
- The fort-da game, as the instantiation of language, also marks the formation of subjectivity within the child's unconscious.
- a particular instantiation
- an actual instantiation
- an ethnic instantiation
And those trophies represented the best instantiation of what it was he was really after.
- And those trophies represented the best instantiation of what it was he was really after.
- And then there's this instantiation of what safety felt like or feels like.
- He couldn't just program these in software, so he had to build analogue hardware instantiations of perceptrons.
- And he says the very act of asking the question is an instantiation of the self.
- And so if nobody is actually an instantiation of the philosophy, that suggests one of two things.
- But my excuse is that I was looking for particularly clear instantiations of particular kinds of homage, so forgive me.
- So and that's really the will be the kind of final instantiation of what we tried to what we tried to create.
Examples
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And those trophies represented the best instantiation of what it was he was really after.
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The success of these arguments was not due to a discovery of the right instantiation of the right rules.
Academic text (1991) -
But it is the sort of ultimate instantiation of the English language.
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In James Bond, we find an ideal instantiation of this force at work.
Academic text (1990) -
I saw this as a powerful instantiation of jazz world ideals.
Academic text (1999) -
It was an instantiation of Austrian economics, now put into code and put online.
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For is not Vertov's project the very instantiation of the Enlightenment on film?
Academic text (1999) -
You would say that lions are an instantiation of this bracket term of predator.
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Ultimately, the debate surrounding this novel serves as an early instantiation of the high ethical stakes of referential narratives.
Academic text (2016) -
The successful program is an instantiation of our innovative approach to education.
Synonyms
9
6.3
A person or thing that shows a quality very clearly
1
6.7
An example that shows something, or the act of showing something using an example
How Concrete
66
2.8
∞
2.6
- Specialized
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9.3
- Specialized
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6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
instantiation = instantiate (semi-transparent) = instance + ate + ion
Formed from the verb 'instantiate' with the nominalizing suffix '-ion'; the process is regular but the verb and resulting noun are somewhat technical and less familiar to learners.
Etymology
Instantiation comes from the common word instance, which means a 'specific example', and the ending -ation, which often means 'the act of'. So an instantiation is the act of turning a general idea into a concrete 'instance' you can see or use.