Definition of instrumentality in English:

instrumentality

nounPlural instrumentalities ɪnstrʊmɛnˈtalɪtiˌɪnstrəmənˈtælədi

mass noun

1The fact or quality of serving as an instrument or means to an end; agency.
媒介
a corporate body can act only through the instrumentality of human beings
法人组织只能以人为媒介来发挥作用。
Example sentencesExamples
- Certainly Heidegger critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered.
- Social research continues to emphasize the instrumentality of capitalism in producing these conditions.
- The cabbies are an exploited immigrant labor pool, perpetually in motion as they fulfill their instrumentality as a means of transporting white subjects from work to home, and from home to work and play.
- The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America.
- A real and abiding concern for the dignity of human life postulates resistance to taking life through law's instrumentality.
- In addition, this simple cognitive comparison model is based on an integration of information concerning the valance, instrumentality, and expectancy of outcomes.
- Rather, a masculinist workplace culture that rewards long hours and values competitiveness, individualism and instrumentality excludes those people that want a life outside work, whatever their gender.
- Because we emphasise instrumentality rather than ‘that which God does’, it might well be that the Almighty has already left us alone to discover our helplessness.
- The focus on instrumentality enables existential warriors to defeat stronger instrumental Western armies such as those of Vietnam and Afghanistan.
- These differences, however, remain interesting findings in that they can help explain possible current conflicts between the young and old with regard to permissiveness or instrumentality.
- The most important secondary consequence was the spread of instrumentality beyond the hand and the body.
- At the heart of all of them, I would argue, is the idea of instrumentality: a thing, unlike a person, is an instrument or means to the ends of persons; it is not an end in itself.
- Uniform, along with the cogneries of military discipline procedures, should not be seen only in terms of docility and repression, or ideological instrumentality.
- The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship.
- That groundedness is why art and design programs are becoming a model for liberal arts education, which has historically tried to remove itself from any instrumentality.
- Literalizing the form's political instrumentality, Chesnutt stages the first of the novel's two cakewalks as light entertainment for a group of northern investors.
- There seems to be two standard ways of realising the hidden instrumentality of a building and both seem to involve or at least portend its destruction: there is a natural and a supernatural way of going about it.
- In this view, the value of pursuing knowledge and learning rests in their anticipated instrumentality and usefulness in obtaining other goods.
- That vision of a European ideal, despite its many faults, sought to construct a project based on assumptions of progress and instrumentality.
- I first became aware of the political instrumentality of religion when manoeuvred into Anglican Confirmation by paternal pressure.
Synonyms
means of communication, means of expression, mode of expression, means, method, way, form, agency, channel, forum
1. 1.1count noun A thing which serves as a means to an end.
  手段，工具
  Example sentencesExamples
  We need more effective strategies to tackle the problem of poaching and smuggling, but as to the precise instrumentalities, I will await for the report of the taskforce on tigers which I have set.
  Shiite leaders are planning a congress that can establish the instrumentalities for creating the region of ‘Sumer’ in the south, which will consist of 3 consolidated provinces.
  The particular instrumentality for this cultural upheaval was the computer, in all its manifestations, and the various networks to which the computer could be linked, prime among them the Internet.
  It's no secret that war means big business for defense contractors - particularly the ones who provide instrumentalities of warfare like bullets, armor, bombs and missiles.
  For example, in the United States banks have been found liable on various bases, including the so-called instrumentality theory - they have controlled and dominated a borrower and it has become their mere instrumentality.
  To return to public broadcasting, which Flint lets off with a slap on the wrist: many of us perceive a tragic decline in that instrumentality.
  The only instrumentality to be used is the Word of God, bringing the soul into contact with it by reading, preaching, singing, the sacraments, and the exercise of discipline.
  Democracy was imperiled when those instrumentalities failed.
  And what you've got in the Philippines is a pattern of islands, of small islands and you know, it could go on - you have to attack targets with whatever instrumentalities you have.
  As the federal government says, ‘It should be noted that the business to be obtained or retained does not need to be with a foreign government or foreign government instrumentality.’
  And the instrumentality, Larry, is going to be very important.
  But the modes of doing so are changing with the current technological and institutional developments and our historical habits are increasingly at odds with the contemporary exigencies, instrumentalities and methodologies.
  Hence, the Spirit appropriates the ‘old, old story of Jesus and his love’ as the divinely chosen instrumentality in calling people into the family of God and in leading them to view all of life from the perspective of that story.
  Those political formations, which toned down their public opposition to accession, without altering their fundamental ideograph, were seen as possible instrumentalities to counter pan-Islamism and secessionism.
  For the government of each such country, the President is to seek to determine the precise agency or instrumentality and the specific officials that are responsible for the particularly severe violations.
  The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations.
  Yet this insecure dictator remains the world's most critical, indeed, ‘indispensable’, instrumentality in the war against terror, and for the stabilisation of the wider region around South Asia!
  The only question is whether probable cause exists that somewhere on the property some evidence of the crime, contraband, instrumentality, or a fruit of the crime will be discovered.
  In contrast, a federal research facility is ‘each department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States which uses live animals for research or experimentation.’
  There is definitely nothing entirely ‘new’ about a group of almost exclusively white, European or American men inventing new applications that extend and enhance the instrumentalities of technology.

Definition of instrumentality in US English:

instrumentality

nounˌinstrəmənˈtalədēˌɪnstrəmənˈtælədi

1The fact or quality of serving as an instrument or means to an end; agency.
媒介
a corporate body can act only through the instrumentality of human beings
法人组织只能以人为媒介来发挥作用。
Example sentencesExamples
- At the heart of all of them, I would argue, is the idea of instrumentality: a thing, unlike a person, is an instrument or means to the ends of persons; it is not an end in itself.
- In addition, this simple cognitive comparison model is based on an integration of information concerning the valance, instrumentality, and expectancy of outcomes.
- The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America.
- Literalizing the form's political instrumentality, Chesnutt stages the first of the novel's two cakewalks as light entertainment for a group of northern investors.
- In this view, the value of pursuing knowledge and learning rests in their anticipated instrumentality and usefulness in obtaining other goods.
- A real and abiding concern for the dignity of human life postulates resistance to taking life through law's instrumentality.
- The focus on instrumentality enables existential warriors to defeat stronger instrumental Western armies such as those of Vietnam and Afghanistan.
- Social research continues to emphasize the instrumentality of capitalism in producing these conditions.
- The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship.
- I first became aware of the political instrumentality of religion when manoeuvred into Anglican Confirmation by paternal pressure.
- Certainly Heidegger critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered.
- That groundedness is why art and design programs are becoming a model for liberal arts education, which has historically tried to remove itself from any instrumentality.
- Because we emphasise instrumentality rather than ‘that which God does’, it might well be that the Almighty has already left us alone to discover our helplessness.
- The most important secondary consequence was the spread of instrumentality beyond the hand and the body.
- Uniform, along with the cogneries of military discipline procedures, should not be seen only in terms of docility and repression, or ideological instrumentality.
- Rather, a masculinist workplace culture that rewards long hours and values competitiveness, individualism and instrumentality excludes those people that want a life outside work, whatever their gender.
- The cabbies are an exploited immigrant labor pool, perpetually in motion as they fulfill their instrumentality as a means of transporting white subjects from work to home, and from home to work and play.
- There seems to be two standard ways of realising the hidden instrumentality of a building and both seem to involve or at least portend its destruction: there is a natural and a supernatural way of going about it.
- These differences, however, remain interesting findings in that they can help explain possible current conflicts between the young and old with regard to permissiveness or instrumentality.
- That vision of a European ideal, despite its many faults, sought to construct a project based on assumptions of progress and instrumentality.
Synonyms
means of communication, means of expression, mode of expression, means, method, way, form, agency, channel, forum
1. 1.1 A thing that serves as an instrument or means to an end.
  媒介
  Example sentencesExamples
  As the federal government says, ‘It should be noted that the business to be obtained or retained does not need to be with a foreign government or foreign government instrumentality.’
  Those political formations, which toned down their public opposition to accession, without altering their fundamental ideograph, were seen as possible instrumentalities to counter pan-Islamism and secessionism.
  And what you've got in the Philippines is a pattern of islands, of small islands and you know, it could go on - you have to attack targets with whatever instrumentalities you have.
  And the instrumentality, Larry, is going to be very important.
  For the government of each such country, the President is to seek to determine the precise agency or instrumentality and the specific officials that are responsible for the particularly severe violations.
  The particular instrumentality for this cultural upheaval was the computer, in all its manifestations, and the various networks to which the computer could be linked, prime among them the Internet.
  There is definitely nothing entirely ‘new’ about a group of almost exclusively white, European or American men inventing new applications that extend and enhance the instrumentalities of technology.
  It's no secret that war means big business for defense contractors - particularly the ones who provide instrumentalities of warfare like bullets, armor, bombs and missiles.
  We need more effective strategies to tackle the problem of poaching and smuggling, but as to the precise instrumentalities, I will await for the report of the taskforce on tigers which I have set.
  Democracy was imperiled when those instrumentalities failed.
  But the modes of doing so are changing with the current technological and institutional developments and our historical habits are increasingly at odds with the contemporary exigencies, instrumentalities and methodologies.
  Shiite leaders are planning a congress that can establish the instrumentalities for creating the region of ‘Sumer’ in the south, which will consist of 3 consolidated provinces.
  The only question is whether probable cause exists that somewhere on the property some evidence of the crime, contraband, instrumentality, or a fruit of the crime will be discovered.
  To return to public broadcasting, which Flint lets off with a slap on the wrist: many of us perceive a tragic decline in that instrumentality.
  Hence, the Spirit appropriates the ‘old, old story of Jesus and his love’ as the divinely chosen instrumentality in calling people into the family of God and in leading them to view all of life from the perspective of that story.
  The only instrumentality to be used is the Word of God, bringing the soul into contact with it by reading, preaching, singing, the sacraments, and the exercise of discipline.
  In contrast, a federal research facility is ‘each department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States which uses live animals for research or experimentation.’
  The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations.
  For example, in the United States banks have been found liable on various bases, including the so-called instrumentality theory - they have controlled and dominated a borrower and it has become their mere instrumentality.
  Yet this insecure dictator remains the world's most critical, indeed, ‘indispensable’, instrumentality in the war against terror, and for the stabilisation of the wider region around South Asia!

词汇	instrumentality
释义	Definition of instrumentality in English: instrumentality nounPlural instrumentalities ɪnstrʊmɛnˈtalɪtiˌɪnstrəmənˈtælədi mass noun 1The fact or quality of serving as an instrument or means to an end; agency. 媒介 a corporate body can act only through the instrumentality of human beings 法人组织只能以人为媒介来发挥作用。 Example sentencesExamples Certainly Heidegger critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered. Social research continues to emphasize the instrumentality of capitalism in producing these conditions. The cabbies are an exploited immigrant labor pool, perpetually in motion as they fulfill their instrumentality as a means of transporting white subjects from work to home, and from home to work and play. The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America. A real and abiding concern for the dignity of human life postulates resistance to taking life through law's instrumentality. In addition, this simple cognitive comparison model is based on an integration of information concerning the valance, instrumentality, and expectancy of outcomes. Rather, a masculinist workplace culture that rewards long hours and values competitiveness, individualism and instrumentality excludes those people that want a life outside work, whatever their gender. Because we emphasise instrumentality rather than ‘that which God does’, it might well be that the Almighty has already left us alone to discover our helplessness. The focus on instrumentality enables existential warriors to defeat stronger instrumental Western armies such as those of Vietnam and Afghanistan. These differences, however, remain interesting findings in that they can help explain possible current conflicts between the young and old with regard to permissiveness or instrumentality. The most important secondary consequence was the spread of instrumentality beyond the hand and the body. At the heart of all of them, I would argue, is the idea of instrumentality: a thing, unlike a person, is an instrument or means to the ends of persons; it is not an end in itself. Uniform, along with the cogneries of military discipline procedures, should not be seen only in terms of docility and repression, or ideological instrumentality. The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship. That groundedness is why art and design programs are becoming a model for liberal arts education, which has historically tried to remove itself from any instrumentality. Literalizing the form's political instrumentality, Chesnutt stages the first of the novel's two cakewalks as light entertainment for a group of northern investors. There seems to be two standard ways of realising the hidden instrumentality of a building and both seem to involve or at least portend its destruction: there is a natural and a supernatural way of going about it. In this view, the value of pursuing knowledge and learning rests in their anticipated instrumentality and usefulness in obtaining other goods. That vision of a European ideal, despite its many faults, sought to construct a project based on assumptions of progress and instrumentality. I first became aware of the political instrumentality of religion when manoeuvred into Anglican Confirmation by paternal pressure. Synonyms means of communication, means of expression, mode of expression, means, method, way, form, agency, channel, forum 1.1count noun A thing which serves as a means to an end. 手段，工具 Example sentencesExamples We need more effective strategies to tackle the problem of poaching and smuggling, but as to the precise instrumentalities, I will await for the report of the taskforce on tigers which I have set. Shiite leaders are planning a congress that can establish the instrumentalities for creating the region of ‘Sumer’ in the south, which will consist of 3 consolidated provinces. The particular instrumentality for this cultural upheaval was the computer, in all its manifestations, and the various networks to which the computer could be linked, prime among them the Internet. It's no secret that war means big business for defense contractors - particularly the ones who provide instrumentalities of warfare like bullets, armor, bombs and missiles. For example, in the United States banks have been found liable on various bases, including the so-called instrumentality theory - they have controlled and dominated a borrower and it has become their mere instrumentality. To return to public broadcasting, which Flint lets off with a slap on the wrist: many of us perceive a tragic decline in that instrumentality. The only instrumentality to be used is the Word of God, bringing the soul into contact with it by reading, preaching, singing, the sacraments, and the exercise of discipline. Democracy was imperiled when those instrumentalities failed. And what you've got in the Philippines is a pattern of islands, of small islands and you know, it could go on - you have to attack targets with whatever instrumentalities you have. As the federal government says, ‘It should be noted that the business to be obtained or retained does not need to be with a foreign government or foreign government instrumentality.’ And the instrumentality, Larry, is going to be very important. But the modes of doing so are changing with the current technological and institutional developments and our historical habits are increasingly at odds with the contemporary exigencies, instrumentalities and methodologies. Hence, the Spirit appropriates the ‘old, old story of Jesus and his love’ as the divinely chosen instrumentality in calling people into the family of God and in leading them to view all of life from the perspective of that story. Those political formations, which toned down their public opposition to accession, without altering their fundamental ideograph, were seen as possible instrumentalities to counter pan-Islamism and secessionism. For the government of each such country, the President is to seek to determine the precise agency or instrumentality and the specific officials that are responsible for the particularly severe violations. The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations. Yet this insecure dictator remains the world's most critical, indeed, ‘indispensable’, instrumentality in the war against terror, and for the stabilisation of the wider region around South Asia! The only question is whether probable cause exists that somewhere on the property some evidence of the crime, contraband, instrumentality, or a fruit of the crime will be discovered. In contrast, a federal research facility is ‘each department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States which uses live animals for research or experimentation.’ There is definitely nothing entirely ‘new’ about a group of almost exclusively white, European or American men inventing new applications that extend and enhance the instrumentalities of technology. Definition of instrumentality in US English: instrumentality nounˌinstrəmənˈtalədēˌɪnstrəmənˈtælədi 1The fact or quality of serving as an instrument or means to an end; agency. 媒介 a corporate body can act only through the instrumentality of human beings 法人组织只能以人为媒介来发挥作用。 Example sentencesExamples At the heart of all of them, I would argue, is the idea of instrumentality: a thing, unlike a person, is an instrument or means to the ends of persons; it is not an end in itself. In addition, this simple cognitive comparison model is based on an integration of information concerning the valance, instrumentality, and expectancy of outcomes. The concepts of both realism and instrumentality are tricky ones when it comes to moving from sixteenth-century Germany to late-twentieth-century North America. Literalizing the form's political instrumentality, Chesnutt stages the first of the novel's two cakewalks as light entertainment for a group of northern investors. In this view, the value of pursuing knowledge and learning rests in their anticipated instrumentality and usefulness in obtaining other goods. A real and abiding concern for the dignity of human life postulates resistance to taking life through law's instrumentality. The focus on instrumentality enables existential warriors to defeat stronger instrumental Western armies such as those of Vietnam and Afghanistan. Social research continues to emphasize the instrumentality of capitalism in producing these conditions. The modelling of all human behaviour on the contractualism and instrumentality of the market corrodes any politics of solidarity and citizenship. I first became aware of the political instrumentality of religion when manoeuvred into Anglican Confirmation by paternal pressure. Certainly Heidegger critiques technology's instrumentality as marking the commencement of modernity as calculable, defined, measurable, ordered. That groundedness is why art and design programs are becoming a model for liberal arts education, which has historically tried to remove itself from any instrumentality. Because we emphasise instrumentality rather than ‘that which God does’, it might well be that the Almighty has already left us alone to discover our helplessness. The most important secondary consequence was the spread of instrumentality beyond the hand and the body. Uniform, along with the cogneries of military discipline procedures, should not be seen only in terms of docility and repression, or ideological instrumentality. Rather, a masculinist workplace culture that rewards long hours and values competitiveness, individualism and instrumentality excludes those people that want a life outside work, whatever their gender. The cabbies are an exploited immigrant labor pool, perpetually in motion as they fulfill their instrumentality as a means of transporting white subjects from work to home, and from home to work and play. There seems to be two standard ways of realising the hidden instrumentality of a building and both seem to involve or at least portend its destruction: there is a natural and a supernatural way of going about it. These differences, however, remain interesting findings in that they can help explain possible current conflicts between the young and old with regard to permissiveness or instrumentality. That vision of a European ideal, despite its many faults, sought to construct a project based on assumptions of progress and instrumentality. Synonyms means of communication, means of expression, mode of expression, means, method, way, form, agency, channel, forum 1.1 A thing that serves as an instrument or means to an end. 媒介 Example sentencesExamples As the federal government says, ‘It should be noted that the business to be obtained or retained does not need to be with a foreign government or foreign government instrumentality.’ Those political formations, which toned down their public opposition to accession, without altering their fundamental ideograph, were seen as possible instrumentalities to counter pan-Islamism and secessionism. And what you've got in the Philippines is a pattern of islands, of small islands and you know, it could go on - you have to attack targets with whatever instrumentalities you have. And the instrumentality, Larry, is going to be very important. For the government of each such country, the President is to seek to determine the precise agency or instrumentality and the specific officials that are responsible for the particularly severe violations. The particular instrumentality for this cultural upheaval was the computer, in all its manifestations, and the various networks to which the computer could be linked, prime among them the Internet. There is definitely nothing entirely ‘new’ about a group of almost exclusively white, European or American men inventing new applications that extend and enhance the instrumentalities of technology. It's no secret that war means big business for defense contractors - particularly the ones who provide instrumentalities of warfare like bullets, armor, bombs and missiles. We need more effective strategies to tackle the problem of poaching and smuggling, but as to the precise instrumentalities, I will await for the report of the taskforce on tigers which I have set. Democracy was imperiled when those instrumentalities failed. But the modes of doing so are changing with the current technological and institutional developments and our historical habits are increasingly at odds with the contemporary exigencies, instrumentalities and methodologies. Shiite leaders are planning a congress that can establish the instrumentalities for creating the region of ‘Sumer’ in the south, which will consist of 3 consolidated provinces. The only question is whether probable cause exists that somewhere on the property some evidence of the crime, contraband, instrumentality, or a fruit of the crime will be discovered. To return to public broadcasting, which Flint lets off with a slap on the wrist: many of us perceive a tragic decline in that instrumentality. Hence, the Spirit appropriates the ‘old, old story of Jesus and his love’ as the divinely chosen instrumentality in calling people into the family of God and in leading them to view all of life from the perspective of that story. The only instrumentality to be used is the Word of God, bringing the soul into contact with it by reading, preaching, singing, the sacraments, and the exercise of discipline. In contrast, a federal research facility is ‘each department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States which uses live animals for research or experimentation.’ The chief instrumentality of this sweeping program would be a league of nations. For example, in the United States banks have been found liable on various bases, including the so-called instrumentality theory - they have controlled and dominated a borrower and it has become their mere instrumentality. Yet this insecure dictator remains the world's most critical, indeed, ‘indispensable’, instrumentality in the war against terror, and for the stabilisation of the wider region around South Asia!
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