instance

Urgency of manner or words; an urgent request; insistence.

I know one very well alied, to whom, at the instance of a brother of his[…], I spake to that purpose[…].

[…]undertook at her instance to restore them.

A token; a sign; a symptom or indication.

It sends some precious instance of itself/ After the thing it loves.

That which is urgent; motive.

The instances that second marriage move Are base respects of thrift, but none of love.

A piece of evidence; a proof or sign (of something).

The reason that I gather he is mad, Besides this present instance of his rage, Is a mad tale he told to day at dinner […]

An occasion; an order of occurrence.

The Statutes, or Acts of Parliament themſelves. Theſe ſeem, as if in the Time of Edw[ard] I. they were drawn up into the Form of a Law in the firſt Inſtance, and ſo aſſented to by both Houſes, and the King, as may appear by the very Obſervation of the Contexture and Fabrick of the Statutes of thoſe Times.

To mention as a case or example; to refer to; to cite

The reason why so many fallacious opinions have passed into proverbs is owing to that carelessness which makes the individual instance the general rule.

Mr. BENSON estimated the amount of guano on Jarvis' Island at 5,000,000 tons, and on Baker's Island at no less. He instanced experiments to show that it was in no way inferior to the best Peruvian article. Another company had lately been formed to bring guano from still other islands lately discovered.

To cite an example as proof; to exemplify.

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.

In these games, such as World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online, most significant PvP happens inside instanced or player-capped areas.

This is an improvement compared to contemporary MMORPG which combine zoning and instancing, whereas replication is currently not available for a combination with either of them. Zoning (Cai, Xavier, Turner, & Lee, 2002; Macedonia, Zyda,[…]

To render (an object) as part of a batch, using the same geometry data.