Instantiation

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Instantiation or instance may refer to:

Philosophy

A modern concept similar to participation in classical Platonism; see the Theory of Forms
The instantiation principle, the idea that in order for a property to exist, it must be had by some object or substance; the instance being a specific object rather than the idea of it
Universal instantiation
Existential fallacy, also called existential instantiation
A substitution instance, a formula of mathematical logic that can be produced by substituting certain strings of symbols for others in formulae

Instance (computer science) can refer generally to any running process, or specifically to an object, as in an instance of a class
Table instance (or database instance), a concept in database design; see Row (database)
Instantiation of an object
Instance can refer to a single virtual machine in a cloud computing environment that provides operating system-level virtualization