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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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The instrument inspired him to write the music for The Smiths' 1984 single Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now and its B-side Girl Afraid.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

Detecting formaldehyde inside a volcanic plume in the stratosphere, however, pushed the instrument well beyond the conditions for which its standard measurements are normally designed.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Paul Snyder, who is chair of the College for Creative Studies’ transportation design program, said a temporary driver kit would require a “unique or heavily modified instrument panel on the driver side,” Snyder said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

First is metacognition, which means checking your own instrument.

From MarketWatch Sep. 15, 2026

Musically, the shape of the instrument is important since the shape is directly related to sound and sound production.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

LRO carries several instruments that can reveal changes not visible in camera images alone.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Autocallable notes are structured-debt instruments tied to stocks or an index with underlying equity exposure.

From MarketWatch Sep. 18, 2026

The instruments, which were used during his time with The Smiths and on his forthcoming solo album, went under the hammer as part of Christie's Marr's Guitars: The Johnny Marr Collection sale.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

The hips-and-knee unit, which also makes instruments to repair bones and joints, had been a linchpin of J&J’s medical-device business.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

Throughout the United States, spirits rapped messages, played instruments, remembered the past, and told of the future.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

The Blue Origin spacecraft will also carry an instrumented lunar surface spacesuit mass simulator.

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

I worked at the facility from 1973 to 1976, and Metro’s 1000-series cars were instrumented and running around loops to identify problem areas.

From Washington Post Jan. 27, 2023

We're the only sport that has done this type of work with instrumented mouthguards.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2022

Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands, a U.S. naval facility, is the world's largest instrumented, "multi-dimensional" testing and training missile range, according to the U.S.

From Fox News Feb. 22, 2022

We are unlikely to determine the answer to this question without landing instrumented space vehicles on the Titanian surface.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“We are instrumenting the car in a way that is overloading the driver just like we were overloading the helicopter pilots,” said Strayer, director of the university’s Center for the Prevention of Distracted Driving.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 6, 2022

This can be a result of budgetary constraints, the difficulty of instrumenting treacherous volcanoes and, in some cases, red tape preventing the placement of sensors in wilderness areas.

From New York Times Nov. 9, 2021

“And we need to rethink what this instrumenting of the world — all that data being generated and collected — means for privacy and how all this data is used.”

From New York Times Aug. 4, 2015

Yet little has been done to probe the underlying crust and mantle, mainly because instrumenting the entire state is so expensive.

From Scientific American Nov. 5, 2013

Niels and I get to work carefully instrumenting the sleep logger and attaching it to the bird.

From New York Times Apr. 15, 2011




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