# instancing

Pronunciation: say "IN-stuhns-ing" /ˈɪnstənsɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of instance. — present participle and gerund of instance
   - Simple: Present participle of instance. Use this form for an action happening now, or as an "-ing" noun.
   - _The professor was instancing cases where the theory broke down._
   - _Instancing too many exceptions weakened her overall argument._

## Noun

2. The creation of a particular instance of something.
   - Simple: The act of making one real example of a general idea or thing.
   - _The instancing of the general principle in this experiment clarified its scope._
   - _Researchers documented each instancing of the pattern across the datasets._

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