ORACLE - DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DATABASE AND INSTANCE

What is the difference between Database and Instance?
            Database is a set of Files stored in the disk.
            Instance is a set of background processes and shared memory.

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Real application cluster means one database + more than one instance.
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