Usually means: Specific occurrence of an object.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word instance:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. instance: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. instance: Collins English Dictionary
  4. instance: Vocabulary.com
  5. Instance, instance: Wordnik
  6. instance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. instance: Wiktionary
  8. instance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. instance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. instance: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. instance: Dictionary.com
  12. instance: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. instance: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Instance (computer science), Instance (disambiguation), Instance (predicate logic), Instance: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Instance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. instance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. instance: Rhymezone
  18. instance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. instance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. instance: Free Dictionary
  21. instance: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. instance: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. instance: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. instance: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. instance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. instance: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. instance: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. instance: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. instance: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instance: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See instanced as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
noun:  (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
noun:  (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
noun:  Occasion; order of occurrence.
noun:  A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
noun:  One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
noun:  (computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
noun:  (massively multiplayer online games) A dungeon or other area that is duplicated for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.
noun:  (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
noun:  (Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
verb:  (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
verb:  (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
verb:  (massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) for each player, or each party of players, that enters it, so that each player or party has a private copy of the area, isolated from other players.

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