multiple instances
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmultipleandinstance
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multiple
adjective
uk/ˈmʌl.tɪ.pəl/us/ˈmʌl.tə.pəl/
very many of the same type, or of ...
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instance
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.stəns/us/ˈɪn.stəns/
a particular situation, event, or fact, especially an example of something that ...
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Many sentences contain multiple instances of the same type, such as lists and ranges.
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This was to see whether children remembered multiple instances of doublets better than single instances.
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Families are used to relate places corresponding in the unfolding to multiple instances of the same place in the original net.
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A single word could contribute multiple instances of a pattern.
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As with the adults, children frequently used singular noun phrases when talking about pages with multiple instances.
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This project is, to a limited degree, taken up in tenenbaum griffiths' empirical studies of generalization from single and multiple instances.
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Multiple instances of the same phenomenon are collected, where "sameness" is based on shared formal properties such as action type, action design, and sequential structure.
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However, this finding is consistent with the fact that one can focus on an individual animal even when multiple instances are displayed.
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Exemplar-based models have multiple instances in memory, one for each exemplar.
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With the standard system, multiple instances were extracted without synthesizing them.
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Answers appearing as multiple instances need to be fused efficiently to reduce repeated information.
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Because there were multiple instances per set, children presumably would feel more free to refrain from picking after the first one or two choices.
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This included multiple instances of the same utterance type provided these were not immediate self-repetitions (see above).
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