Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.

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I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his.

* Sir Walter Scott

undertook at her instance to restore them.

(obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves. Hamlet IV. v. ca. 1602

(obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.

* Shakespeare

The instances that second marriage move / Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

Occasion; order of occurrence.

* Sir M. Hale

These seem as if, in the time of Edward I., they were drawn up into the form of a law, in the first instance .

A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.

* Atterbury

most remarkable instances of suffering

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sometimes we love those that are absent, saith Philostratus, and gives instance in his friend Athenodorus, that loved a maid at Corinth whom he never saw

One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.

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* 2010 , The Guardian , 11 Oct 2010:

The organisations claim fraudsters are targeting properties belonging to both individuals and companies, in some instances using forged documents.

(obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).

* c. 1594 , William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors :

The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner [...].

(computing) In object-oriented programming: a created object, one that has had memory allocated for local data storage; an instantiation of a class.

(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.

* 2006 September 1, "Dan" (username), " Re: DPS Classes: Why should I heal you?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

As long as the most difficult instance you've tried is Gnomeregan, you're never going to be credible talking about 'difficult encounters'.

* 2010 , , Online Multiplayer Games , Morgan & Claypool, ISBN 9781608451425, page 26:

For example, when a team of five players enters the Sunken Temple instance in World of Warcraft , they will battle many monsters, but they will not encounter other players even though several teams of players may be experiencing the Sunken Temple at the same time.

* 2012 , anonymous gamer quoted in Andrew Ee & Hichang Cho, " What Makes an MMORPG Leader? A Social Cognitive Theory-Based Approach to Understanding the Formation of Leadership Capabilities in Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games", Eludamos , volume 6, page 31:

Beating a difficult instance becomes second nature after running through it…a few times, with good leaders knowing exactly what to do and how to co-ordinate member actions.

(massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.

* 2005 January 11, Patrick B., " Re: Instance dungeons", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

The instance is created for the group that enters it.

* 2005 December 6, "Rene" (username), " Re: Does group leader affect drops?", in alt.games.warcraft, Usenet:

As soon as the first player enters (spawns) a new instance , it appears that the loottable is somehow chosen.

* 2010 , Anthony Steed & Manuel Fradinho Oliveira, Networked Graphics: Building Networked Games and Virtual Environments , Elsevier, ISBN 978-0-12-374423-4, page 398:

A castle on the eastern edge of the island spawns a new instance whenever a party of players enters.

Noun

That which affects one's welfare or happiness.

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The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

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A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

* 2001 November 18, " What the Muslim World Is Watching," The New York Times (retrieved 26 July 2014):

Soon after he ascended the throne, an Arabic television joint venture between the BBC and a Saudi concern , Orbit Communications, foundered over the BBC's insistence on editorial independence.

(computing, programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

* 2006 , Awais Rashid, ?Mehmet Aksit, Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development II (page 148)

At the programming level, an aspect is a modular unit that implements a concern .