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Definition of instrument in English: instrumentnoun ˈɪnstrʊm(ə)ntˈɪnstrəmənt 1A tool or implement, especially one for precision work. （尤指灵敏度高的）仪器，器具 外科器械。 刑具。 书写工具。 Example sentencesExamples - There was also a table with knives and surgical instruments, a dentist's chair, and several white smocks hanging up on a wall.
- A provider of precision instruments offers systems designed to heat and form thermoplastics into finished catheters.
- It's a simple stone that has become a tool, an instrument employed for drawing marks.
- They're used as torture instruments to elicit secrets, saw off limbs, drill holes in ankles, etc.
- Investment castings usually are small, and it is especially suited to production of jewelry and parts for precision instruments.
- M. Barthes admits, ‘I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments.’
- Ladders, tools and sharp instruments should not be left lying around in the open.
- This display will no doubt be of interest to the farming community and it may be that the general public might be surprised by the surgical instruments used by vets in the past.
- Such instruments add precision to a procedure, because they're designed to compensate for involuntary movements in a surgeon's hands.
- They may only be carving fruit and vegetables, but these precision instruments need sharpening every week and the useful life of the knives in his hands is only six weeks.
- This instrument is a favourite tool of the armed forces and mountain climbers all over the world.
- Torque wrenches are precision instruments and need to treated and operated carefully.
- Amsler did not rest his fame on this single inspired idea but continued to invent new precision instruments.
- Despite their appearance, they are not of course instruments of torture.
- I am a surgeon, so my tools are my surgical instruments.
- Well, they are holding a pen fair, from April 19 to April 21, to showcase a plethora of pens and writing instruments.
- Precision screws allowed precision instruments to be made.
- The old house is filled with an array of farming tools and instruments from yesteryear.
- It also served as the public's sole source of iron tools and instruments.
- The use of robotics in medicine allows for unprecedented control and precision of surgical instruments in minimally invasive procedures.
Synonyms implement, tool, utensil, device, apparatus, contrivance, gadget, contraption, appliance, mechanism informal gizmo - 1.1 A means of pursuing an aim.
the failure of education as an instrument of social reform Example sentencesExamples - Given their importance as an instrument of social regulation, it's odd that the law and law enforcement were so long cold-shouldered by historians.
- Thus, only for a relatively short period of modern history has the American Bill of Rights been a progressive instrument of national reform.
- Recent historical experience thus confirms the judgement made long ago by Marx and Lenin that the state can't simply be used as an instrument of social transformation.
- It is very tempting to use prosecutions as a political instrument or a tool for revenge.
- Yet, sharing a meal is one of the most powerful social levelers, a potent instrument of social bonding and dissolving boundaries.
- These have proven to be a viable instrument of social security reform in more than a half-dozen countries, with their origins in Sweden.
- Language, in this sense, was truly an instrument of power and social control.
- The decay of American liberalism as a credible instrument of social reform can be traced all the way back to the first decades of the twentieth century.
- And hopefully, even, we need to use expropriation as an instrument of land reform.
- Rather it is used as an instrument of social policy.
- Most favor an activist federal government that intervenes in the economy, redistributes wealth, and acts as an instrument of social change.
- Is it an instrument of social oppression or of national self-assertion?
- It can be used to bring about change and to be an instrument of reform, but it can also be used to block change, to frustrate reform and to control and preserve the status quo.
- The court was laden with judges who believe strongly in judicial activism - liberally interpreting the law so that it can be used an instrument of social reform.
- Public-private partnerships will be the key instruments for implementing regional development projects.
- Wealth as an instrument of social control is a privilege of rank or of birth.
- It's not really an instrument of social change, as such.
- Both have committed themselves to developing education as an instrument of social change.
- This attempt is ridiculous, not least because the government is actively engaged in strengthening religious institutions as an instrument of social control.
- We know that stereotyping is an instrument of social repression and undercuts human relationships.
Synonyms agent, agency, catalyst, cause, factor, channel, force, medium, means, mechanism, vehicle, organ - 1.2 A person who is exploited or made use of.
被利用的人，工具 he was a mere instrument acting under coercion 他只是被迫做事的工具。 Example sentencesExamples - The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became a mere instrument for the production of children.
- He was the mere agent of the Army Council, bound to obey their orders or resign his post - the mere instrument through whose hands the libel passed for publication.
- Moshe Rabbeinu was a mere transcriber, the instrument through which these words reached us.
- The worker no longer sees himself as a mere instrument for fulfilling the needs of the entrepreneur.
- ‘No one is a mere instrument, no one a serf,’ said Friedrich Schiller.
- The narcissist objectifies people and treats them as mere instruments of gratification.
- How should they react to the allegation that they are the instruments of greed, exploitation and inequality?
- That is, we should always treat people with dignity, and never use them as mere instruments.
Synonyms pawn, puppet, creature, dupe, hostage, counter, cog tool, cat's paw informal stooge
2A measuring device used to gauge the level, position, speed, etc. of something, especially a motor vehicle or aircraft. （尤指机动车或飞机的）仪器，仪表 a new instrument for measuring ozone levels myriad instruments and switches Example sentencesExamples - The instrument is able to measure isotopes at the individual atom level and does so by generating millions of volts of electricity.
- Attached to the basket are instruments measuring GPS, altitude, wind speed and direction.
- But as soon as a hijack takes place, certain codes are input by the pilot into aircraft instruments to alert ground staff.
- Models of sophisticated weapons, missile systems and various aircraft instruments were also on display.
- The Air Force promptly made him an aircraft instrument repairman.
- Test aircraft are well covered, along with other, usually neglected, topics such as manufacturing and aircraft instruments.
- Thus it was possible to fly it on instruments from this position, which I did.
- In the crash laboratory, the two tracks are measured using two laser instruments to guarantee the exact position of the cars.
- He hired 10 women on a trial basis, and set them to work in the aircraft instrument section.
- The demonstrator tries to ‘trick the inner ear and pilots are forced to rely on the instruments to fly the aircraft’.
- Many of these sophisticated instruments are capable of multiple functions, and the data that they gather will be studied by scientists worldwide.
- The chlorophyll content was measured with an instrument called a SPAD meter which is sensitive to slight chlorophyll differences.
- We used this same technique when the instrument measuring the solar wind speed was still working.
- In low visibility, they help guide pilots to the runway as we transition from flying on the aircraft's instruments to a visual landing.
- The first step involves using a device called a polymerase chain reaction instrument to measure the levels of an organism's cytokines when exposed to a given material.
- Using Beer-Lambert's law, the instrument detects and measures the reductions caused by pollutants in the spectrum of ambient air.
- Columbus had no instrument to measure his speed, so he simply observed bubbles and debris floating past his ship and used those observations to make an estimate of the speed.
- The group will use an accousticom instrument to measure radiation levels in and around homes.
- Use global positioning instruments in aircraft to assist you in making sure you are spraying the correct field and in selecting the proper spray paths.
- Viewed in cold and analytical light, the figure was probably erroneous because of the lack of precision of the aircraft's instruments.
Synonyms measuring device, gauge, meter, measure indicator, dial, display 3An object or device for producing musical sounds. 乐器 the value of learning to play a musical instrument the musicians started tuning their instruments 打击乐器。 Example sentencesExamples - Between them they play a selection of instruments including guitar, bodhrán, whistle, keyboards and English concertina.
- Guitars and instruments, from double bass to tiny mandolins were ordered in and a new venture was born.
- Musical instruments include drums, flutes, gongs, xylophones, and various kinds of horns.
- I certainly don't hear identifiable guitars or other conventional instruments.
- However, the acoustic guitar is a folk instrument par excellence, and the folk have never been shy about subjecting their guitars to creative abuse.
- Instruments used in the orchestrations are a piano and various combinations of percussion and rhythm band instruments.
- The group of five are trained to play percussion instruments, xylophones and an elephant-sized harmonica.
- They learn to play instruments like violin, guitar, and trumpet.
- After studying the piano for six years and the viola for nine, my son decided that his true instrument was the electric guitar.
- It's an epic track, layered with excellent instruments, from acoustic guitars to chiming electronics, and it maintains a warm glow despite some bittersweet lyrics.
- I believe the only instrument not percussion in the ensemble is the harmonium, analogous to the Balinese flute ensemble.
- The multi-talented performer plays an array of instruments including piano, guitar, bass, trumpet and saxophone.
- I'm rooted in acoustic instruments like upright piano and violin, so my keyboard was the first electronic thing I'd ever used.
- Many students regard the piano as a percussion instrument, and treat it as such.
- Their Web site features a photo filled with percussion instruments, plus a guitar and bass.
- In common with most percussion instruments, the piano is incapable of producing continuous notes.
- The santour is a member of the hammered dulcimer or zither family of stringed instruments and has its origins in ancient Persian classical music.
- Together, the first and last items constitute a conclusive demonstration that the piano is a percussion instrument.
- The instruments are flute, cello, and piano, and all three are amplified.
- They are at home with all kinds of instruments - keyboard, guitar, flute, tabla, drums.
4A formal or legal document. execution involves signature and unconditional delivery of the instrument 公文需签署并无条件送达才能执行。 Example sentencesExamples - One of the significant changes introduced by the Constitutional Treaty will be a major reduction in the number of legal instruments, from 15 to five.
- Nor is it true that the whole of the policy is incorporated in the certificate or that both instruments in their entirety are to be read together.
- At their core, contracts are voluntary legal instruments.
- The requirements made in international legal instruments, such as the ones cited above, are good first principles with which to start.
- Genetic engineering is moving several times faster than the legal instruments.
- It concerned an action to recover commission on sale where the instrument recording the contract of sale was insufficiently stamped.
- The Magna Carta is often regarded as one of the first instruments which documented due process.
- Without the ability to resort to formal regulatory and legal instruments, the Japanese bureaucracy could guide but could not lead.
- The result is that if the memorandum were to have any effect at all, it had to be as a testamentary instrument, and not as document creating an inter vivos trust.
- The document signed on May 7 is a remarkable legal instrument.
- National opposes this bill because far from simply correcting that inadvertent error, it creates a whole new raft of radical, new, legal instruments.
- Thus, they know us well and, indeed, our respondents made great efforts and we were able to devise a formal instrument for them to complete.
- It is only to say that the International Court and United Nations law might at present be relatively uninteresting to legal theorists because they usually are such ineffective legal instruments.
- The legal status of these instruments was considered in Chapter 1.
- Not being a legal instrument, the Declaration would appear to be outside international law.
- It also violates our fundamental values of justice and fairness which these legal instruments encode.
- You have to vest first, and only after you have accomplished the vesting exercise do you accomplish the statutory rectification of the instrument in question, in our submission.
- Later we see that the hallmark of negotiable instruments - documentary intangibles - is their ready transferability.
- When it is finally time for the public comment, planning instruments drafted in legal language are often found to be impenetrable.
- Many police officers and prosecutors are, of course, honest and hardworking, but they are hampered by a lack of resources and legal instruments and corruption in the courts and alongside them in the police.
verb ˈɪnstrʊm(ə)ntˈɪnstrəmənt [with object]Equip (something) with measuring instruments. 给…装备测量仪器 engineers have instrumented rockets to study the upper atmosphere a DC-8 aircraft instrumented as a flying laboratory Example sentencesExamples - For Protocol 4, animals were instrumented before delivery to measure pulmonary artery pressure and left atrial pressure.
- Each site was instrumented with several Onset portable data loggers connected to single probe-type thermistors.
- I like the notion of instrumenting an instant messaging client with coordination features - shared calendaring, for example.
- Future GPS testing organizations would obtain cost savings and a reduced coordination effort if more operational systems were similarly instrumented.
- The dish, a Multi-Electrode Array, is instrumented with 60 two-way electrodes for communication between the neurons and external electronics.
- Numerous challenges arise in instrumenting any field test to acquire the data necessary for specific test measures.
- Furthermore, such an object can be instrumented to record all GUI-implementation interactions.
- First, the subjects studied were heavily instrumented and it is possible that the arousal response may be altered as a result.
- The braces were instrumented with strain gauges on the medial support bracket to allow determination of the brace loads during walking.
- In this study, 12 animals were instrumented as in the mechanical ventilation study, but in addition, both hindlimbs were immobilized.
- Showing how it is instrumented can be helpful in instrumenting your custom components.
- The Austin and Duluth golf courses are similarly instrumented.
- The site had been extensively instrumented weeks before with multiple sensors to measure the blast pressure and its impact on a number of residential and industrial buildings surrounding ground zero.
- Both aircraft were heavily instrumented and the prototype put in 165 hours over 130 flights in just 51 days while the second machine contributed 86 hours.
- This precision grinder is fully instrumented to facilitate data collection and analysis.
- Each patient's brace was instrumented with strain gauges on the day of testing and bench-calibrated just before testing by using known loads.
- Additional information can be obtained if the impact tester is instrumented to provide a load-line history of the specimen during each test.
- BMC's automation solutions are instrumented to be capable of serving all of these potential environments.
- The aircraft was specially instrumented with several hundred strain gauges, which recorded data at a given load.
- The Part 572 Subpart L free motion headform was instrumented with a critically damped Entran triaxial accelerometer.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from Latin instrumentum 'equipment, implement', from the verb instruere 'construct, equip'. Definition of instrument in US English: instrumentnounˈinstrəməntˈɪnstrəmənt 1A tool or implement, especially one for delicate or scientific work. （尤指灵敏度高的）仪器，器具 外科器械。 书写工具。 Example sentencesExamples - The old house is filled with an array of farming tools and instruments from yesteryear.
- This instrument is a favourite tool of the armed forces and mountain climbers all over the world.
- Precision screws allowed precision instruments to be made.
- Ladders, tools and sharp instruments should not be left lying around in the open.
- They're used as torture instruments to elicit secrets, saw off limbs, drill holes in ankles, etc.
- Torque wrenches are precision instruments and need to treated and operated carefully.
- It's a simple stone that has become a tool, an instrument employed for drawing marks.
- Amsler did not rest his fame on this single inspired idea but continued to invent new precision instruments.
- A provider of precision instruments offers systems designed to heat and form thermoplastics into finished catheters.
- There was also a table with knives and surgical instruments, a dentist's chair, and several white smocks hanging up on a wall.
- Investment castings usually are small, and it is especially suited to production of jewelry and parts for precision instruments.
- This display will no doubt be of interest to the farming community and it may be that the general public might be surprised by the surgical instruments used by vets in the past.
- I am a surgeon, so my tools are my surgical instruments.
- Such instruments add precision to a procedure, because they're designed to compensate for involuntary movements in a surgeon's hands.
- The use of robotics in medicine allows for unprecedented control and precision of surgical instruments in minimally invasive procedures.
- Despite their appearance, they are not of course instruments of torture.
- Well, they are holding a pen fair, from April 19 to April 21, to showcase a plethora of pens and writing instruments.
- M. Barthes admits, ‘I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments.’
- They may only be carving fruit and vegetables, but these precision instruments need sharpening every week and the useful life of the knives in his hands is only six weeks.
- It also served as the public's sole source of iron tools and instruments.
Synonyms implement, tool, utensil, device, apparatus, contrivance, gadget, contraption, appliance, mechanism - 1.1 A thing used in pursuing an aim or policy; a means.
手段，方法 drama as an instrument of learning 作为学习手段的戏剧。 Example sentencesExamples - Thus, only for a relatively short period of modern history has the American Bill of Rights been a progressive instrument of national reform.
- Wealth as an instrument of social control is a privilege of rank or of birth.
- It can be used to bring about change and to be an instrument of reform, but it can also be used to block change, to frustrate reform and to control and preserve the status quo.
- The court was laden with judges who believe strongly in judicial activism - liberally interpreting the law so that it can be used an instrument of social reform.
- Both have committed themselves to developing education as an instrument of social change.
- Yet, sharing a meal is one of the most powerful social levelers, a potent instrument of social bonding and dissolving boundaries.
- Most favor an activist federal government that intervenes in the economy, redistributes wealth, and acts as an instrument of social change.
- Public-private partnerships will be the key instruments for implementing regional development projects.
- Is it an instrument of social oppression or of national self-assertion?
- It's not really an instrument of social change, as such.
- Given their importance as an instrument of social regulation, it's odd that the law and law enforcement were so long cold-shouldered by historians.
- The decay of American liberalism as a credible instrument of social reform can be traced all the way back to the first decades of the twentieth century.
- Recent historical experience thus confirms the judgement made long ago by Marx and Lenin that the state can't simply be used as an instrument of social transformation.
- Language, in this sense, was truly an instrument of power and social control.
- Rather it is used as an instrument of social policy.
- These have proven to be a viable instrument of social security reform in more than a half-dozen countries, with their origins in Sweden.
- This attempt is ridiculous, not least because the government is actively engaged in strengthening religious institutions as an instrument of social control.
- It is very tempting to use prosecutions as a political instrument or a tool for revenge.
- And hopefully, even, we need to use expropriation as an instrument of land reform.
- We know that stereotyping is an instrument of social repression and undercuts human relationships.
Synonyms agent, agency, catalyst, cause, factor, channel, force, medium, means, mechanism, vehicle, organ - 1.2 A person who is exploited or made use of.
被利用的人，工具 he was a mere instrument acting under coercion 他只是被迫做事的工具。 Example sentencesExamples - He was the mere agent of the Army Council, bound to obey their orders or resign his post - the mere instrument through whose hands the libel passed for publication.
- How should they react to the allegation that they are the instruments of greed, exploitation and inequality?
- Moshe Rabbeinu was a mere transcriber, the instrument through which these words reached us.
- ‘No one is a mere instrument, no one a serf,’ said Friedrich Schiller.
- The man took command in the home also; the woman was degraded and reduced to servitude; she became a mere instrument for the production of children.
- The narcissist objectifies people and treats them as mere instruments of gratification.
- The worker no longer sees himself as a mere instrument for fulfilling the needs of the entrepreneur.
- That is, we should always treat people with dignity, and never use them as mere instruments.
Synonyms pawn, puppet, creature, dupe, hostage, counter, cog
2A measuring device used to gauge the level, position, speed, etc. of something, especially a motor vehicle or aircraft. （尤指机动车或飞机的）仪器，仪表 Example sentencesExamples - The group will use an accousticom instrument to measure radiation levels in and around homes.
- In low visibility, they help guide pilots to the runway as we transition from flying on the aircraft's instruments to a visual landing.
- Viewed in cold and analytical light, the figure was probably erroneous because of the lack of precision of the aircraft's instruments.
- Thus it was possible to fly it on instruments from this position, which I did.
- Attached to the basket are instruments measuring GPS, altitude, wind speed and direction.
- The Air Force promptly made him an aircraft instrument repairman.
- Using Beer-Lambert's law, the instrument detects and measures the reductions caused by pollutants in the spectrum of ambient air.
- Models of sophisticated weapons, missile systems and various aircraft instruments were also on display.
- The first step involves using a device called a polymerase chain reaction instrument to measure the levels of an organism's cytokines when exposed to a given material.
- Test aircraft are well covered, along with other, usually neglected, topics such as manufacturing and aircraft instruments.
- Use global positioning instruments in aircraft to assist you in making sure you are spraying the correct field and in selecting the proper spray paths.
- Columbus had no instrument to measure his speed, so he simply observed bubbles and debris floating past his ship and used those observations to make an estimate of the speed.
- He hired 10 women on a trial basis, and set them to work in the aircraft instrument section.
- We used this same technique when the instrument measuring the solar wind speed was still working.
- In the crash laboratory, the two tracks are measured using two laser instruments to guarantee the exact position of the cars.
- But as soon as a hijack takes place, certain codes are input by the pilot into aircraft instruments to alert ground staff.
- The chlorophyll content was measured with an instrument called a SPAD meter which is sensitive to slight chlorophyll differences.
- The demonstrator tries to ‘trick the inner ear and pilots are forced to rely on the instruments to fly the aircraft’.
- The instrument is able to measure isotopes at the individual atom level and does so by generating millions of volts of electricity.
- Many of these sophisticated instruments are capable of multiple functions, and the data that they gather will be studied by scientists worldwide.
Synonyms measuring device, gauge, meter, measure 3An object or device for producing musical sounds. 乐器 打击乐器。 Example sentencesExamples - Together, the first and last items constitute a conclusive demonstration that the piano is a percussion instrument.
- Their Web site features a photo filled with percussion instruments, plus a guitar and bass.
- The instruments are flute, cello, and piano, and all three are amplified.
- They are at home with all kinds of instruments - keyboard, guitar, flute, tabla, drums.
- However, the acoustic guitar is a folk instrument par excellence, and the folk have never been shy about subjecting their guitars to creative abuse.
- They learn to play instruments like violin, guitar, and trumpet.
- I'm rooted in acoustic instruments like upright piano and violin, so my keyboard was the first electronic thing I'd ever used.
- Musical instruments include drums, flutes, gongs, xylophones, and various kinds of horns.
- Instruments used in the orchestrations are a piano and various combinations of percussion and rhythm band instruments.
- Between them they play a selection of instruments including guitar, bodhrán, whistle, keyboards and English concertina.
- Many students regard the piano as a percussion instrument, and treat it as such.
- The santour is a member of the hammered dulcimer or zither family of stringed instruments and has its origins in ancient Persian classical music.
- I believe the only instrument not percussion in the ensemble is the harmonium, analogous to the Balinese flute ensemble.
- The multi-talented performer plays an array of instruments including piano, guitar, bass, trumpet and saxophone.
- In common with most percussion instruments, the piano is incapable of producing continuous notes.
- Guitars and instruments, from double bass to tiny mandolins were ordered in and a new venture was born.
- I certainly don't hear identifiable guitars or other conventional instruments.
- The group of five are trained to play percussion instruments, xylophones and an elephant-sized harmonica.
- After studying the piano for six years and the viola for nine, my son decided that his true instrument was the electric guitar.
- It's an epic track, layered with excellent instruments, from acoustic guitars to chiming electronics, and it maintains a warm glow despite some bittersweet lyrics.
4A formal document, especially a legal one. （尤指法律）公文，文书 execution involves signature and unconditional delivery of the instrument 公文需签署并无条件送达才能执行。 Example sentencesExamples - Without the ability to resort to formal regulatory and legal instruments, the Japanese bureaucracy could guide but could not lead.
- Not being a legal instrument, the Declaration would appear to be outside international law.
- One of the significant changes introduced by the Constitutional Treaty will be a major reduction in the number of legal instruments, from 15 to five.
- It concerned an action to recover commission on sale where the instrument recording the contract of sale was insufficiently stamped.
- The requirements made in international legal instruments, such as the ones cited above, are good first principles with which to start.
- The legal status of these instruments was considered in Chapter 1.
- It also violates our fundamental values of justice and fairness which these legal instruments encode.
- The document signed on May 7 is a remarkable legal instrument.
- Thus, they know us well and, indeed, our respondents made great efforts and we were able to devise a formal instrument for them to complete.
- The Magna Carta is often regarded as one of the first instruments which documented due process.
- Nor is it true that the whole of the policy is incorporated in the certificate or that both instruments in their entirety are to be read together.
- It is only to say that the International Court and United Nations law might at present be relatively uninteresting to legal theorists because they usually are such ineffective legal instruments.
- The result is that if the memorandum were to have any effect at all, it had to be as a testamentary instrument, and not as document creating an inter vivos trust.
- You have to vest first, and only after you have accomplished the vesting exercise do you accomplish the statutory rectification of the instrument in question, in our submission.
- At their core, contracts are voluntary legal instruments.
- Later we see that the hallmark of negotiable instruments - documentary intangibles - is their ready transferability.
- Many police officers and prosecutors are, of course, honest and hardworking, but they are hampered by a lack of resources and legal instruments and corruption in the courts and alongside them in the police.
- National opposes this bill because far from simply correcting that inadvertent error, it creates a whole new raft of radical, new, legal instruments.
- Genetic engineering is moving several times faster than the legal instruments.
- When it is finally time for the public comment, planning instruments drafted in legal language are often found to be impenetrable.
verbˈinstrəməntˈɪnstrəmənt [with object]Equip (something) with measuring instruments. 给…装备测量仪器 Example sentencesExamples - Numerous challenges arise in instrumenting any field test to acquire the data necessary for specific test measures.
- First, the subjects studied were heavily instrumented and it is possible that the arousal response may be altered as a result.
- The Austin and Duluth golf courses are similarly instrumented.
- Showing how it is instrumented can be helpful in instrumenting your custom components.
- BMC's automation solutions are instrumented to be capable of serving all of these potential environments.
- The site had been extensively instrumented weeks before with multiple sensors to measure the blast pressure and its impact on a number of residential and industrial buildings surrounding ground zero.
- The Part 572 Subpart L free motion headform was instrumented with a critically damped Entran triaxial accelerometer.
- I like the notion of instrumenting an instant messaging client with coordination features - shared calendaring, for example.
- For Protocol 4, animals were instrumented before delivery to measure pulmonary artery pressure and left atrial pressure.
- Additional information can be obtained if the impact tester is instrumented to provide a load-line history of the specimen during each test.
- Each patient's brace was instrumented with strain gauges on the day of testing and bench-calibrated just before testing by using known loads.
- In this study, 12 animals were instrumented as in the mechanical ventilation study, but in addition, both hindlimbs were immobilized.
- The braces were instrumented with strain gauges on the medial support bracket to allow determination of the brace loads during walking.
- This precision grinder is fully instrumented to facilitate data collection and analysis.
- Both aircraft were heavily instrumented and the prototype put in 165 hours over 130 flights in just 51 days while the second machine contributed 86 hours.
- Furthermore, such an object can be instrumented to record all GUI-implementation interactions.
- The dish, a Multi-Electrode Array, is instrumented with 60 two-way electrodes for communication between the neurons and external electronics.
- Future GPS testing organizations would obtain cost savings and a reduced coordination effort if more operational systems were similarly instrumented.
- Each site was instrumented with several Onset portable data loggers connected to single probe-type thermistors.
- The aircraft was specially instrumented with several hundred strain gauges, which recorded data at a given load.
OriginMiddle English: from Old French, or from Latin instrumentum ‘equipment, implement’, from the verb instruere ‘construct, equip’. |