OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 30798

instantiate

/ɪnˈstænʃieɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
instanciar
To represent (a concept, theme, or principle) by an instance.
In the eighteenth century, this was instantiated in writings which developed the view that ‘savages’ exhibited more virtue and moral nobility than their conquerors.
To see and test the result of one's CSS for any particular HTML element, one must instantiate that element in a document.