单词	instantiate
释义	instantiate /ɪnˈstanʃɪeɪt / verb [with object] 1Represent as or by an instance: a study of two groups who seemed to instantiate productive aspects of this... The designer then instantiates root modules to represent the entire device being modeled. To assign a word to a particular word class - to say of a word that it is a noun, verb, or whatever - is to claim that the word instantiates the schematically characterized word class. Kirby provides us with a clear example of how these non-white characters instantiate the nobility of the white loyalist's enterprise. 1.1 (be instantiated) Philosophy (Of a universal or abstract concept) be represented by an actual example.The concept unicorn is not instantiated.... The fact that I do not believe that this property of intrinsic blueness is ever instantiated does not mean that I should give up the concept, any more than disbelievers in Satan should give up the concept of satanic. But we cannot know that the metaphysical principles must be instantiated, at the level of phenomena, in one particular way. Derivatives instantiation /ɪnstanʃɪˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ... The chapter on ‘egoistic suicide’ is, of course, full of empirical instantiations of this reasoning. In fact the West may begin to lose their local instantiations of these practices as a direct result of on ongoing policy of militarism. Anything more complicated than a colour, shape or number seems to be rather fuzzy, and is defined by family resemblance and a rough collection of properties, not all of which are shared by any instantiation. Origin 1940s: from Latin instantia (see instance) + -ate3. Rhymes substantiate, transubstantiate
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