Usually means: Occurrences or examples of something.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. instances: Merriam-Webster
  2. instances: Collins English Dictionary
  3. instances: Vocabulary.com
  4. Instances, instance's, instances: Wordnik
  5. instances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. instances: Wiktionary
  7. instances: Dictionary.com
  8. instances: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. instances: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. instances: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. instances: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instances: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instances: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (instance)

noun:  (obsolete) Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.
noun:  (obsolete) A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.
noun:  (obsolete) That which is urgent; motive.
noun:  (obsolete) A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).
noun:  Occasion; order of occurrence.
noun:  A case offered as an exemplification or a precedent; an illustrative example.
noun:  One of a series of recurring occasions, cases, essentially the same.
noun:  (computing) A specific occurrence of something that is created or instantiated, such as a database, or an object of a class in object-oriented programming.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (massively multiplayer online games) An individual copy of such a dungeon or other area.
noun:  (Internet) An independent server on a decentralised social network, such as Mastodon.
verb:  (transitive) To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite
verb:  (intransitive) To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.
verb:  (massively multiplayer online games) To duplicate (a dungeon or other area) 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.
verb:  (transitive, computer graphics) To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.
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