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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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| Instrumented impact values at maximum load are 99 lb at 23 C and 144 lb at -20 C. The compact ISIS 5 module, which is sixty percent smaller than previous SensArray data acquisition modules, acquires temperature data from SensArray Process Probe instrumented wafers, with up to 17 sensors. The article, "Review of Instrumented Indentation," by Mark VanLandingham is the first in a series of Invited Reviews of key research areas at NIST. |
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