instantiate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

instantiate
    v 1: represent by an instance; "This word instantiates the usage
         that the linguists claimed to be typical for a certain
         dialect"
    2: find an instance of (a word or particular usage of a word);
       "The linguists could not instantiate this sense of the noun
       that he claimed existed in a certain dialect"

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

instantiation
instantiate

   <programming> Producing a more defined version of some object
   by replacing variables with values (or other variables).

   1. In {object-oriented programming}, producing a particular
   {object} from its {class template}.  This involves allocation
   of a structure with the types specified by the template, and
   initialisation of {instance variables} with either default
   values or those provided by the class's {constructor}
   function.

   2. In {unification}, (as used in {logic programming}, {type
   checking} and {type inference}), binding a {logic variable}
   ({type variable}) to some value (type).

   (1995-03-28)