instance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstəns/
Forms: form: instances
form: instancing
form: instanced
form: instanced
form: enstaunce
form: instaunce
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French instance, from Latin īnstantia (“a being near, presence, also perseverance, earnestness, importunity, urgency”), from īnstāns (“urgent”); see instant.
Senses: examples: text: The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individual instance the general rule.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 93:
text: Mr. BENSON estimated the amount of guano on Jarvis' Island at 5,000,000 tons, and on Baker's Island at no less. He instanced experiments to show that it was in no way inferior to the best Peruvian article. Another company had lately been formed to bring guano from still other islands lately discovered.
ref: 1858 December 8, “Meeting of the Farmers' Club.”, in The New-York Times, volume VIII, number 2252, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1; republished as Transactions of the American Institute, of the City of New York, for the Year 1858., Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1859, page 179:
text: District Veterinary Surgeon Hutchinson's report from Newcastle is again worthy of notice, as instancing the difficulty of suppression of contagious disease under the disturbed conditions now existing in the northern part of the Colony.
ref: 1901 April 12, “Veterinary Departmental Report for February, 1901”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 3, page 87:
text: The poems which I have instanced are concrete and relatively glaring examples of the intangible difference which the change of language made in Rilke's visions .
ref: 1946, E. M. Butler, Rainer Maria Rilke, page 404:
glosses: To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
glosses: To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
examples: text: In these games, such as World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online, most significant PvP happens inside instanced or player-capped areas.
ref: 2010 April 1, Scott F. Andrews, The Guild Leader's Handbook: Strategies and Guidance from a Battle-Scarred MMO Veteran, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 124:
text: This is an improvement compared to contemporary MMORPG which combine zoning and instancing, whereas replication is currently not available for a combination with either of them. Zoning (Cai, Xavier, Turner, & Lee, 2002; Macedonia, Zyda,[…]
ref: 2012 May 31, Ashok Kumar, Algorithmic and Architectural Gaming Design: Implementation and Development: Implementation and Development, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 302:
text: Instanced encounters standard in today's MMORPGs, but the lack of instancing in early EverQuest meant that the guild (a team of players operating as a team) or group(s) of players who raced to and engaged a target first could claim the[…]
ref: 2021 May 24, Mark J. P. Wolf, Encyclopedia of Video Games: The Culture, Technology, and Art of Gaming, 2nd Edition [3 volumes], ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 316:
glosses: 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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glosses: To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.