instantiating

Bringing into existence

Instantiating is creating a concrete instance of something abstract.

In computing, you instantiate a class by creating an object from it: The program instantiates a new user object each time someone logs in.

More broadly, to instantiate is to represent an abstraction with a specific example: The case instantiates a broader pattern of corporate negligence.

emergence

materialization

Coming into tangible existence

unfolding · realization · actualization · embodiment · concretization · arising · bringing forth · coming into being · taking shape · crystallizing

creating

prototype

First functional specimen

production · construction · formulation · synthesis · crafting · invention · manufacture · implementation · realization · engineering

software

object

Tangible entity or aim

allocation · variable · parameter · memory · runtime · declaration · invocation · reference · pointer · heap

Opposites
abstraction vs. concretization

instantiatingabstracting

Condensing to essentials

generalizing · theorizing · conceptualizing · idealizing · typifying

creation vs. destruction

instantiatingdestroying

Causing complete ruin

deleting · removing · eliminating · abolishing · nullifying

realization vs. conception

instantiatingplanning

Arranging for future events

conceiving · designing · envisioning · imagining · drafting

Family

instantiation, instantiations

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