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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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Abbey loves “everything” about the music and dancing she tells me, excited to share that Mic personally gave her the tambourine and a few other instruments too.

From Los Angeles Times

The jump was thanks largely to unrealized changes in the value of derivative financial instruments used to manage foreign exchange, interest rate and commodity price risks, Enbridge said.

From The Wall Street Journal

An electric keyboard programmed to sound like a fortepiano is also embedded in a handcrafted instrument, which actors with musical training can play.

From Los Angeles Times

Using specially adapted instruments, they measured isotopes, which are slight differences in the mass of atoms.

From Science Daily

But Keane says he even picked up an instrument himself because they wanted it to "feel really rough".

From BBC