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

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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

Moerner and Kueppers are continuing to refine the instrument, with the goal of eventually making it accessible to scientists across many areas of biology.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

One is a so-called diversification instrument, which aims to reduce European companies’ dependencies on one country for the inputs they need.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

They flew close to the ground using instrument read-outs alone—they couldn’t see anything outside their windows.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

"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 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

Pagers, or beepers, are dated instruments that can receive signals but not transmit them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

By measuring changes in radiocarbon concentrations across successive tree rings, scientists can reconstruct how solar activity varied long before modern instruments existed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

What if you had only a few instruments?

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

From Science Daily ● Jul. 23, 2026

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’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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