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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 melodica is a handheld instrument played by blowing air into a reed, which is attached to a keyboard.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Fenton set Hopkins up with a keyboard loaded with samples of every instrument, and an internal switch was flipped: now the actor could compose for orchestra.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2026

Without the "Big Bang" power saving effort, the Voyager team would have needed to turn off another instrument aboard Voyager 2 before the end of 2026.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

Castel responded to skepticism about his instrument by building one.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Some sources even list the power range of an instrument or voice.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones

Then comes a bevy of scientific instruments, a small nuclear engine, and shiny orange foam to keep the instruments warm in space.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

A musician inspired by her story is working on an album of songs about it, but admitted he used AI to backfill vocals and instruments on it.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

A Japanese musician who cancelled performances at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe after her treasured instruments were stolen has decided to go ahead with her final shows.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

"The instruments had massive sentimental value to me. They were both gifted to me by my dad who passed away this week last year," she said.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

It could have been straight out of Fred’s Miles Davis album, where the musicians made sounds that had never been made by instruments before.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

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

From Science Daily Jul. 23, 2026

Then we browsed the For You page feed for each sockpuppet, recording what we saw via WebArchive.page, a specially instrumented web browser that archives all the data involved in a browsing session locally.

From Washington Post Mar. 30, 2023

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

The initial design for the lab, to be built over the next 5 years at the University of Idaho, calls for 24 richly instrumented soil columns topped with airtight chambers for vegetation.

From Science Magazine Oct. 12, 2021

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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