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Answer for the clue "Instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end ", 9 letters:
implement

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Word definitions for implement in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Implement \Im"ple*ment\, v. t. To accomplish; to fulfill. [R.] Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown. --Sir W. Scott. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A tool or instrument for working with. Etymology 2 vb. 1 to bring about; to put into practice 2 to carry out; to do

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1806, originally chiefly in Scottish, where the noun was a legal term meaning "fulfillment," from implement (n.). It led to the wretched formation implementation , first recorded 1913. Related: Implemented .

Usage examples of implement.

He removed it from a layer of black sand and gravel that also contained stone implements of the Acheulean type.

For instead of using his own men to implement it, the King had directed that each local community of Aeolian or Ionian or Dorian Greeks should do the killing.

Aztecs, the Arkies had metal weapons, the favorite being an implement with a long handle ending in a curved blade on one side and a spike on the other.

The proof that the Baldies were definitely here had caused the first rule to be implemented: their cautionary radio silence was now, except for dire emergency, total.

Now, as he beheld the area below, he saw the Bololos bending over the piles of costumes and props, draping themselves in outsized garments and picking up various implements.

For example, stone tools were sometimes found along with incised bones, and experiments with these implements produced marks on fresh bone exactly resembling those found on the fossils.

If Desnoyers concluded correctly that the marks on many of the bones had been made by flint implements, then it would appear that human beings had been present in France during that time.

It had been a labor of devotion and reverence for the small clan to maintain the huge bear for so long, and even the many gifts of food, implements, and furs brought by the visiting clans could not make up for the effort it took.

Jane her scissors, or any other little implement that she occasionally dropped, and that Denbigh could read every lineament of the animated countenance of Emily as she listened to his description of the curiosities of Egypt, a country in which he had spent a few months while attached to the army in Sicily.

Lily advised against her better judgment, but Alden was so happily energized at the moment when he had been sloping around the house so dispiritedly for weeks even as he acted at keeping busy making plans and rummaging in the barn for agrarian implements to polish and sharpen and balance, that Lily could not bring herself to discourage him now.

I, therefore, surveyed the ground, and besides the required personal assistance, had in readiness crowbars, sledges, and, among other implements, the wrenches for unscrewing the nuts of the bolts fastening the fishplates which bound together the rails, end to end.

XXII The prophet of dead words defeats himself: Whoever would acknowledge and include The foregleam and the glory of the real, Must work with something else than pen and ink And painful preparation: he must work With unseen implements that have no names, And he must win withal, to do that work, Good fortitude, clean wisdom, and strong skill.

Polish medicine, the line between dependence and collaboration appears to have been crossed several times: administering questionnaires, keeping track of the addresses of Jewish doctors, implementing the ghettoization process, enforcing public health ordinances requiring the quarantine of Jewish populations, levying taxes against Jews, implementing race laws regarding Jews practicing medicine.

Scientists accept practically without question that the Oldowan implements were made by Homo habilis, a primitive hominid species.

Anyone could rough out a flint tool, but the truly fine ones were made by expert toolmakers who cared for their implements and knew how to keep a hammerstone spirit happy.