instantiation
The creation of new instances of model elements.
See also initialization.
Semantics
Instances are created at run time as a result of primitive create actions or creation operations. First an identity is created for the new instance; then its data structure is allocated as prescribed by its descriptor; and then its property values are initialized as prescribed by the descriptor and the creation operator. Conceptually, all of this happens at once, but it is convenient for modeling and implementation to break instantiation into several stages.
The instantiation usage dependency shows the relationship between an operation that creates instances or a class containing such an operation and the class of objects being instantiated.
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