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

Usage examples of instrumentation.

Brattleboro library, making great use of their interlibrary loan services, studying navigation, star charts, instrumentation, and related subjects.

There was lots of legroom and a complex array of digital instrumentation visible all around, none of which he recognized.

Since according to the steadily lengthening list of benchmarks being provided by the instrumentation there was no neurobiological basis for such enlargement, it had to be a scanner error.

It is regrettable they were not fitted with instrumentation able to fully monitor the neurochemical changes that within their systems took place while under fire they were.

The other instrumentation was mostly fiddles, flutes, and whistles, but there were also a pair of mandolins, a guitar, bodhrans, and the inevitable tenor banjo playing too loud above it all.

Standing over their camouflaged burrows, he methodically fried the subsurface instrumentation that had governed their actions.

He went to it and began sorting through the things he found there, returning with a clamplike device, making adjustments to its instrumentation, setting it.

In the rear of the building Millie Carnavon was carefully repacking delicate instrumentation.

The human was a spy, all right, whose operations had been monitored all along by sophisticated instrumentation aboard an as-yet-undetected interstellar craft.

How far removed delicious, exquisite Feiqa was from the motivated artifices, the lies and fabrications, the propaganda, the demeaning, sterile, unsatisfying, reductive, negative superficialities of antibiological roles, the prescriptions of an unnatural and pathological politics, the manipulative instrumentations of monsters and freaks.

In the laboratories of LeFever, there were spectrometers, gas liquid chromatographs, nuclear magnetic scanners, and other instruments, rapid and precise, with which to analyze and test aromatic substances, but since the worth of a fragrance depends upon its effect on the nose, scientific instrumentation could never hope to replace the sniffing snout of flesh as the final arbiter of fragrance value, and, by general agreement, Marcel's nose was the finest in the business.

A great number of experiments on living monkey brains, with miniaturized instrumentation of many different kinds, had established that while consciousness was thinking, amino-acid sequences were shifting, tub-ulin dimers in many different places in the brain were changing configuration, in pulsed phases.

A great number of experiments on living monkey brains, with miniaturized instrumentation of many different kinds, had established that while consciousness was thinking, amino-acid sequences were shifting, tubulin dimers in many different places in the brain were changing configuration, in pulsed phases.

The TOC's instrumentation ran off a portable fusion power plant adapted from the drive unit of a Frisian armored vehicle.

He found himself standing beside Dr Brohier, listening to two tech-nicians calling off the instrumentation checks.