Definition of instrument

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Instrument (n.) One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium, means, or agent..

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Chronopher :: Chronopher (n.) An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.
Fourchette :: Fourchette (n.) An instrument used to raise and support the tongue during the cutting of the fraenum.
Gyrostat :: Gyrostat (n.) A modification of the gyroscope, consisting essentially of a fly wheel fixed inside a rigid case to which is attached a thin flange of metal for supporting the instrument. It is used in studying the dynamics of rotating bodies..
Bagpipe :: Bagpipe (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland..
Graphoscope :: Graphoscope (n.) An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones..
Horn :: Horn (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape..
Sphygmophone :: Sphygmophone (n.) An electrical instrument for determining by the ear the rhythm of the pulse of a person at a distance.
Visual :: Visual (a.) Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve..
Creature :: Creature (n.) A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
Alkalimeter :: Alkalimeter (n.) An instrument to ascertain the strength of alkalies, or the quantity of alkali in a mixture..
Bassoon :: Bassoon (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc..
Ocular :: Ocular (n.) The eyepiece of an optical instrument, as of a telescope or microscope..
Polarimeter :: Polarimeter (n.) An instrument for determining the amount of polarization of light, or the proportion of polarized light, in a partially polarized ray..
Osmometer :: Osmometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.
Cometarium :: Cometarium (n.) An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun..
Viscosimeter :: Viscosimeter (n.) An instrument for measuring the degree of viscosity of liquids, as solutions of gum..
Sclerometer :: Sclerometer (n.) An instrument for determining with accuracy the degree of hardness of a mineral.
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) A steel instrument for completing the dressing of soft stone.
Stop :: Stop (n.) The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.
Micrograph :: Micrograph (n.) An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
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