instrument

Instrument (from Latin instrumentum ), also the collective term instrumentarium , stands for:

• Tool
• Musical instrument , a device for producing sounds
• Measuring device , device for determining geometric or physical quantities
• in legal history the notarial instrument, a type of document
• a means of data collection in social research; see instrument (social research)
• Political instrument , political means to achieve something

Instrument also stands for:

• Law of the Instrument , a mistake in reasoning

Instrumentarium stands for:

• Instrumentarium (museum) , museum in Rhineland-Palatinate

See also:

• Mathematical instrument
• Surgical instrument
• Instruments

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Wiktionary: Instrument  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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