In the ASP.NET C# programming language, any time you create a new object (using the new operator keyword) based on some model or class, it is said that the model or class has been instantiated.
Employee e1 = new Employee(); Employee e2 = new Employee(); Employee e3 = new Employee();
Above, three Employee objects have been instantiated from and Employee class. It might be likened to cloning a class by giving it a unique name.