instance.
Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
Meaning & usage
Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
That which is urgent; motive.
A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
An occasion; an order of occurrence.
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
To mention as a case or example; to refer to.
To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
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