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instrument 1. Music any of various contrivances or mechanisms that can be played to produce musical tones or sounds 2. a measuring device, such as a pressure gauge or ammeter 3. a. a device or system for use in navigation or control, esp of aircraft b. (as modifier): instrument landing 4. a formal legal document instrument [′in·strə·mənt] (engineering) A device for measuring and sometimes also recording and controlling the value of a quantity under observation.
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| It took but a moment to loosen this and raise the cover, when, to my utter astonishment, I discovered an ordinary telegraph instrument clicking away within. This instrument was designed for the purpose of rendering visible on the surface of the moon any object exceeding nine feet in diameter. An instrument of thy body is also thy little sagacity, my brother, which thou callest "spirit"--a little instrument and plaything of thy big sagacity. |
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