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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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"It is almost magical to see this happening," says Anders Madsen, group leader at the MID instrument, where the study was conducted.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 8, 2026

Whenever the couple need help – which is often as Tulsi frequently has to be carried to hospital – Padam Singh uses a traditional long-horn instrument to summon neighbours.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

A measuring instrument interacts with whatever it is attempting to measure, and that interaction can change the system's behavior.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

But changing who holds the instrument does not necessarily change the music.

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026

Yet he’s made sure she got her instrument back unharmed.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

However, Del Deo speculated that the company may need to raise more funds next year through an equity raise or equity-linked instruments.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

Where revenue or regulatory compliance depends on a measured quantity, companies should disclose how their instruments trace back to a national standard and state a margin of error.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

The genomic evidence from living people has not, so far, detected their signal clearly – but the tools available until recently were blunt instruments.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

Preserving their remaining instruments is particularly important because no other missions can currently collect measurements from this distant region.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

May tossed a few other assorted instruments out of the closet, then turned around.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

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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