What Does Instantiate Mean?
Instantiate (a verb) and instantiation (the noun) in computer science refer to the creation of an object (or an “instance” of a given class) in an object-oriented programming (OOP) language. Referencing a class declaration, an instantiated object is named and created, in memory or on disk. Resources are allocated for it, it gains a place in the general codebase as a whole and it fills a role in what the programmers are constructing. It also is delineated or identified with its own attributes.
Techopedia Explains Instantiate
To explain the process to those who might not be familiar with the details of this kind of programming, some might use examples of class indicators to show how object instantiation works. If the class, for example, is “human,” then the object is “instantiated” in the form of a new person (a new instance of a human) when the new “baby” is born. The application of a name or other attribute to the baby would be the initialization, in the form of creating the variable value.
