English-Spanish translations for instance

• caso
  En algunos supuestos, se fijaron los casos. In some instances, the cases were settled.
  Veremos casos de reestructuración. We shall see instances of restructuring.
  La palabra "exclusiva" falta en este caso. The word 'exclusive' is missing in this instance.
• ejemplo
  Así ocurre, por ejemplo, en Madagascar. It happens in Madagascar, for instance.
  Por ejemplo, uno piensa sin querer en la publicidad. For instance, advertising comes to mind.
  ¿Qué podemos aprender de estos malos ejemplos? What can we learn from those bad instances?
• instancia
• ocasión
  El señor Barroso y el señor Verhofstadt tienen razón en esta ocasión. Mr Barroso is correct and Mr Verhofstadt is correct in this instance.
  Permítanme abordar la cuestión que nos preocupa en esta ocasión. Let me come to the point with which we are concerned in this instance.
  Pero en esta ocasión es muy diferente pues nos encontramos ante aquellos que nos aleccionan continuamente, tal como ha dicho antes el Sr. von Habsburg-Lothringen. In other words, we do have the right in this instance to say that things simply cannot go on like this.

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