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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

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

The batteries that supplied power to the instrument panels in unit 3 were still running.

From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland

This restriction is not caused by flaws in scientific instruments.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 7, 2026

But instruments that settle far larger sums answer to a patchwork of sampling rules and periodic checks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Bombardier logged a $94 million loss on certain financial instruments in the quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

Using humor and social trends, the sisters filmed themselves wearing matching outfits, dancing in sync or playing instruments, including the guitar, banjo, fiddle and mandolin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

I dabble with a few other instruments: viola, violin, and a little piano.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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

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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