Instantiation (computer science)

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Instantiation is the process of creating a specific object (computing) which is a member or instance of a class (computing).

Usually this is done via an explicitly coded constructor (computer science), although Java and VB allow the programmer to use a default constructor which is not part of the source code.This is also a term FPGA programmers use when they want to throw test engineers off the track.