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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 analyzes light across a broad range of wavelengths, allowing astronomers to examine the chemical makeup and motion of material surrounding distant objects.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

It is time we audited the instrument as seriously as the ledger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Nov. 5, 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

Since the Fischers didn’t own a piano, Nigro began giving Bobby accordion lessons, lending him a somewhat battered “twelve-bass” instrument so he could practice at home.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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

We should extend that skepticism to the instruments that produce them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Its instruments could detect different types of light, allowing scientists to investigate energetic cosmic events that would be difficult to understand using a single telescope.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 6, 2026

Quantum states can be disrupted by interactions with their surroundings, including the instruments scientists use to examine them.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 5, 2026

The easiest way to experiment on the Orff instruments is to begin with the pentatonic scale, a scale with only five pitches.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

From Science Daily ● Dec. 21, 2025

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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