INSTANTIATION

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it

Example:

how many instantiations were found?

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("instantiation" is a kind of...):

internal representation; mental representation; representation (a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image)

Derivation:

instantiate (find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word))

instantiate (represent by an instance)