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instrument

[in-struh-muhnt] / ˈɪn strə mənt /




Usage

What are other ways to say instrument? An instrument is anything used in doing a certain type of work or producing a certain result, especially such as requires delicacy, accuracy, or precision: surgical or musical instruments. A tool is a contrivance held in and worked by the hand, for assisting the work of (especially) mechanics or skilled laborers: a carpenter's tools. An implement is any tool or contrivance designed or used for a particular purpose: agricultural implements. A utensil is especially an article for domestic use: kitchen utensils. 

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Most of that radiation comes in the form of gamma rays and other high-energy particles that are invisible to Webb's infrared instruments.

From Science Daily

Kirk and Ms. Getz trade phrases, but then when Kirk starts improvising a solo, it’s on yet a fourth instrument, a flute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Producer Jack Antonoff has described making Sabrina Carpenter's Please, Please, Please with physical instruments, played imperfectly, as a reaction to the clinical nature of modern pop.

From BBC

In the 1960s, artists such as James Brown, Sly and the Family Stone and the Meters updated funk with electric instruments and horns.

From The Wall Street Journal

Critics argue that because the Fed has only one monetary policy instrument, the overnight-interest rate, it should focus on only one goal: low inflation.

From The Wall Street Journal