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equipped with instruments to perform specified functions, as testing, measurement, or control: an instrumented railroad car.
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Instrumented
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noun
1.
a mechanical tool or implement, especially one used for delicate or precision work: surgical instruments.
2.
a contrivance or apparatus for producing musical sounds: a stringed instrument.
3.
a means by which something is effected or done; agency: an instrument of government.
4.
a device for measuring the present value of a quantity under observation.
5.
EXPANDa mechanical or electronic measuring device, especially one used in navigation: landing a plane by instruments.
6.
a formal legal document, as a draft or bond: negotiable instruments.
7.
COLLAPSEa person used by another merely as a means to some private end; tool or dupe.
verb (used with object)
8.
to equip with instruments, as a machine or manufacturing process: to instrument a space vehicle.
9.
to arrange a composition for musical instruments; orchestrate.
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Word Origin & History
instrument
late 13c., "musical instrument," from O.Fr. instrument, from L. instrumentem "a tool, apparatus, furniture, dress, document," from instruere "arrange, furnish" (see instruct). Broader sense of "that which is used as an agent in an performance" is from mid-14c. Instrumental
EXPAND"musical composition for instruments without vocals" is from 1940.
COLLAPSE
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instrument in·stru·ment (ĭn'strə-mənt)
n.
A tool or implement, as for surgery.
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