English Dictionary
◊ DISTANCE
distance
n 1: the property created by the space between two objects or
points
2: a distant region; "I could see it in the distance"
3: a measure of the gap between two places; "the distance from
New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the
shortest line segment joining the two points" [syn: {length}]
4: indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance"
[syn: {aloofness}]
5: the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to
death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes" [syn:
{space}]
6: a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some
distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he
had forgotten many of the details"
v 1: keep at a distance
2: go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners" [syn: {outdistance},
{outstrip}]
English Computing Dictionary
◊ DID YOU MEAN INSTANCE?
instance
An individual {object} of a certain {class}.
While a class is just the type definition, an actual usage of
a class is called "instance". Each instance of a class can
have different values for its {instance variables}, i.e. its
{state}.
(1998-03-06)