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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

For all of those reasons, CoreWeave is an important instrument for Nvidia, even if its debt-fueled business model occasionally causes investor trepidation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

By combining two advanced microscopy techniques, the instrument achieves a resolution of approximately 120 nanometers, an unprecedented level of detail for an approach that does not require fluorescent labels.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026

Why did you decide on which instrument to play?

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

Banks have been struggling to sell debt instruments backed by AI-related loans.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Should Anthropic complete its IPO, the instruments would convert into common equity, ending the mark-to-market liability adjustments on Anthropic’s books, even as Amazon and Alphabet continue to mark the shares to market values.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

Equipped with an enormous 39-meter mirror and advanced scientific instruments, the telescope will give astronomers the ability to detect smaller exomoons that are currently beyond the reach of existing observatories.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The results demonstrated its potential for applications that normally depend on larger, more expensive laboratory instruments.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Children are able to discern the timbre of a sound from a very young age, including the vocal timbres of peers, relatives, and teachers, as well as the timbres of different instruments.

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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