instance

Academic Word List, sublist 3.

About 64.26 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
2. noun A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
3. noun That which is urgent; motive.
4. noun A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
5. noun An occasion; an order of occurrence.
6. noun A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
7. noun One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
8. noun A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.

Similar words

case exemplify illustrate representative example illustration insistence instigation proceeding end

Often followed by

of in the is to a by where that

Word family

instanced instances instancing insufficient insufficiently