creation
The instantiation and initialization of an object or other instance (such as a use case instance). Antonym: destruction.
See also instantiation.
Semantics
Creation of an object is the result of an action that instantiates the object. Creation may be modeled at different levels: a raw creation action or a higher-level operation that invokes the action and then initializes the new object. A creation operation may have parameters that are used for initialization of the new instance. At the conclusion of the creation operation, the new object obeys the constraints of its class and may receive messages.
A creation operation, or constructor, may be declared as a class-scope operation. The target of such an operation is (conceptually, at least) ...
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