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instance | American Dictionary

instance
noun[ C ]
us/ˈɪn·stəns/
a particular situation, event, or fact:
There were several instances of computer failure before we got the system to work properly.
Usually this kind of skin condition is caused by a food allergy, but in this instance it may be caused by the medicine you are taking.
Can you tell us a little about your background? For instance (= As an example), where were you born?

Examples of instance

instance
For instance, we have situated these dynamics in motor plans for reaching.
Burials, for instance, are underneath platforms, within the limits of the dwellings.
Thus, the formation of regular plurals is an instance of ordinary combinatoriality.
For instance, is it the phonetic quality that counts, or its distribution?
In several instances, he returns to subjects treated earlier in the book, such as children's education and the evolution from scrolls to codices.
In such instances, reviewers may need to consider reanalyzing.
For instance, over-blowing on a wind instrument can cause an octave rise, which holds as the pressure is reduced.
Her requests in these instances were somewhat more restrained than earlier ones.
There were very few instances of fasciculation between fibers in which fibers were closely associated with each other following essentially identical paths within the tectum.
In the first instance, it is difficult to conceive what might motivate such random substitutions.
Note that intractability assumptions for random instances are much stronger than complexity-theoretic assumptions, which usually refer only to the worst case.
We can then measure the average running time of these algorithms on random instances.
The method could be taken further if specific requirements were needed and technical variety (telecom for instance) was introduced.
For instance, when a child is scared, the parent tells the child not to be frightened.
The intuition behind the symbolic counterpart of a natural level mapping is that natural level mappings are instances of it.
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classic instance
As such, it is a classicinstance of beneficence twisted into paternalism.
concrete instance
In order to verify the design, a concreteinstance of the sound space was constructed.
exceptional instance
The one exceptional instance where things did not go smoothly might easily have been the general pattern.
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