English-Portuguese translations for instance

• exemplo
  O mesmo aconteceu, por exemplo, para o Sudão. Similarly, for instance on Sudan.
  Tomemos como exemplo o cancro cólon-rectal. Take colorectal cancer, for instance.
  Acontece em Madagáscar, por exemplo. It happens in Madagascar, for instance.
• instância
  Não é a nós que incumbe, em primeira instância, tomar partidos nesta altura. It is not in the first instance up to us to choose sides now.
  Em primeira instância, estes parecem-me ser excelentes relatórios. In the first instance, these seem to me to be excellent reports.
• ocasião
• ocorrência
  Não se trata de um caso isolado, dado que ocorrências destas são cada vez em maior número.This is not an isolated case, rather such instances are mounting up.
  Até à data, e em todas as ocorrências, o Parlamento Europeu reagiu em tempo útil. In every instance so far, the European Parliament has delivered on time.
  Durante os últimos anos, houve efectivamente repetidas ocorrências em que os próprios Estados-Membros sobrestimaram as suas capacidades de utilização de Fundos Estruturais. Over the past few years there have indeed been repeated instances where Member States themselves have overestimated their capacities to use structural funds.

Definition of instance

• Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
• A token; a sign; a symptom or indication
• That which is urgent; motive
• Occasion; order of occurrence
• A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
• One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same
• A piece of evidence; a proof or sign .
• A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
• 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
• An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area
• To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
• To cite an example as proof; to exemplify

Examples

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

Related words

• multi-instance
• instance variable
• for instance
• court of first instance
• higher instance
• international instance
• the act or an instance of
• class instance
• relation instance