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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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A key part of the discovery came from the Juno Waves instrument, which was designed and built by physicists at the University of Iowa.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026

The instrument had a key role to play in Michael's reinvention from teen pop idol to serious solo artist.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

The two musicians play, pluck, strike and strum their instrument to brilliant effect on a record that straddles jazz and contemporary classical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026

“What was interesting about this conglomeration is that nobody was feeling territorial or proprietary about an instrument or a contribution.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

An hour or more of that and her instrument definitely would have been damaged.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

Using humor and social trends, the sisters filmed themselves wearing matching outfits, dancing in sync or playing instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

But INES, Germany's gas storage industry association, said missing the deadline was a "clear signal that the instruments for ensuring winter preparedness need to be further developed".

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

These instruments revealed extremely small structural changes within the metal, including those near cracks that helped explain its unusual resistance to damage.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2026

"There's so many people, from the timber company, to the tyre company, to a friend who makes our banners, to everyone else who has chipped in, lending us instruments, donating costumes," he said.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026

These instruments would have been played both for the enjoyment of the crew and to provide them a rhythm as they raised and lowered the ship’s sails.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Because of these risks, the landslide area has been extensively instrumented since 2020.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

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

"This is the most heavily instrumented vehicle we will ever fly so we will get a tremendous amount of engineering data on vibration and temperature and stress, acoustics," said Mr Shannon.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2021

“We’ve got bad-actor volcanoes that aren’t optimally instrumented to the level that they should be,” he said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 15, 2020

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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