Meanings (ES + gloss)
instancia
Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…].
[…]undertook at her instance to restore them.
caso • ocasión
An occasion; an order of occurrence.
caso • ejemplo
A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
August 30, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preach'd in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, at the funeral of Mr. Tho. Bennet most remarkable instances of suffering
sometimes we love those that are absent, saith Philostratus, and gives instance in his friend Athenodorus, that loved a maid at Corinth whom he never saw […]
instancia
A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
Some compilers will allow statics to be inlined, but then incorrectly create multiple instances of the inlined variable at run-time.
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