An occurrence is any instance of an entity in your program. An
entity can be any language construct, such as a variable, a
routine, or a constant. To further clarify this, consider the
following code fragment (not written in a particular language):
1 MODULE myprog;
2
3 VAR i,j;
4
5 ROUTINE foo()
6 BEGIN
7 i = 5;
8 j = i;
9 END;
10 END;
The code contains four entities: myprog, foo, i, j. There is one
occurrence each of the module myprog, and the routine foo. The
variable i, however, has three occurrences, and the variable j has
two.