Meaning

7 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments.

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

  2. (countable, uncountable)The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.

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

  3. (countable, uncountable)The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance.

    He had a wonderful instrumentation.

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

  4. (countable, uncountable)On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential functions.

    The car's instrumentation included fuel, temperature, voltimeter and oil pressure gauges, along with a speedometer and tachometer.

  5. (countable, uncountable)Monitoring gauges for any machine, such as a reactor.

  6. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The dynamic analysis of a program's performance and behaviour, usually by injecting profiling code into it.

    bytecode instrumentation

  7. (countable, uncountable)The use of tools, instruments, or technical methods in the commission of a crime.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. Astral projection augmented by sophisticated instrumentation became utilized for exploration of distant parts of the universe.

Forms

plural: instrumentations
Singularinstrumentation
Pluralinstrumentations

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments:orchestration
  • an artifact (that is instrumental in accomplishing some end) for accomplishing some end:instrumentalitymeans

Word family

6 related words

See also

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