INSTRUMENTATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does instrumentation mean? 

• INSTRUMENTATION (noun)
  The noun INSTRUMENTATION has 4 senses:

1. an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end

2. the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation

3. the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra

4. the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments

  Familiarity information: INSTRUMENTATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSTRUMENTATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

instrumentality; instrumentation

Hypernyms ("instrumentation" is a kind of...):

artefact; artifact (a man-made object taken as a whole)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "instrumentation"):

ceramic (an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures)

connecter; connection; connective; connector; connexion (an instrumentality that connects)

container (any object that can be used to hold things (especially a large metal boxlike object of standardized dimensions that can be loaded from one form of transport to another))

conveyance; transport (something that serves as a means of transportation)

device (an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose)

equipment (an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service)

furnishing ((usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable)

hardware; ironware (instrumentalities (tools or implements) made of metal)

implement (instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end)

means (an instrumentality for accomplishing some end)

system (instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity)

toilet articles; toiletry (artifacts used in making your toilet (washing and taking care of your body))

arms; implements of war; munition; weaponry; weapons system (weapons considered collectively)

medium (a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information)

Derivation:

instrument (equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("instrumentation" is a kind of...):

effectuation; implementation (the act of implementing (providing a practical means for accomplishing something); carrying into effect)

Derivation:

instrument (equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("instrumentation" is a kind of...):

arrangement; musical arrangement (a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

instrumentation; orchestration

Hypernyms ("instrumentation" is a kind of...):

arrangement; arranging; transcription (the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music)

Derivation:

instrument (write an instrumental score for)

 Context examples 

Picture Archiving and Communication System: A network established to provide access, storage and retrieval of images from medical imaging instrumentation.

(Picture Archiving and Communication System, NCI Thesaurus)

Astronomers used state-of-the-art instrumentation to confirm the existence of water and a lack of methane in the planet's atmosphere.

(Water Found in Planet 120 Light Years Away, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The resource operates, maintains, and upgrades instrumentation for flow cytometric analysis and cell sorting, advises in the design of experiments and contributes consultation in analysis of data.

(Flow Cytometry Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

"Any instrumentation you get out into the ocean, even if it is only the first 50 kilometers from shore, is very useful."

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

Similar to Phased Innovation Award, created to support the pilot application of instrumentation, techniques and analytic tools relevant to research on the molecular biology of cancer.

(Phased Technology Application Award, NCI Thesaurus)

Instrumentation of the crown and root surfaces of a tooth to remove plaque and calculus from these surfaces.

(Periodontal Scaling and Root Planing, NCI Thesaurus)

Establishment of user facilities, acquisition of major instrumentation, and other activities that develop, support, or enhance the Nation's scientific infrastructure for the conduct of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology research and development.

(Major Research Facilities and Instrumentation Acquisition, NCI Thesaurus)

In addition to conducting research at active wildfires in the western U.S., the scientists performed controlled field experiments, setting fires and monitoring their rapid spread through an array of atmospheric instrumentation.

(Researchers discover how wildfires create their own weather, National Science Foundation)

R&D pertaining to the tools needed to advance nanotechnology research and commercialization, including next-generation instrumentation for characterization, measurement, synthesis, and design of materials, structures, devices, and systems.

(Instrumentation Research, Metrology, and Standards for Nanotechnology, NCI Thesaurus)

The multidisciplinary research group ECsens of the University of Granada, which has 20 years’ experience in the design of electronic instrumentation and sensors, has been working with mobile phones for the last ten years as an affordable tool for chemical (bio) analysis.

(Scientists design platform to conduct chemical analysis using a smartphone, University of Granada)