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🧰 To use as a tool 🎶 To make instrumental 🛠️ To add instruments
to instrumentalize

to instrumentalize

8.3
Add sensors to a device to record measurements
  • verb
  • /ˌɪnstrəˈmɛntəˌlaɪz/
  • Specialized
translation icon : instrumentar
  • Scientists instrumentalize vehicles to monitor environmental conditions in remote areas.

Examples

  • Before the experiment, they instrumentalized the laboratory equipment with advanced sensors.

  • The engineers will instrumentalize the new satellite.

  • The engineers instrumentalized the new aircraft to collect data during test flights.

  • They instrumentalized the aircraft for better navigation.

  • The engineers instrumentalized the new aircraft to collect data during test flights.

  • Before the experiment, they instrumentalized the laboratory equipment with advanced sensors.

  • Scientists instrumentalize vehicles to monitor environmental conditions in remote areas.

Synonyms

to instrument
vsto instrumentalize
  • Specialized
1 7.0

To put measuring tools on a machine or place to collect data

focuses on adding sensors to devices, vehicles, or systems for measurement or control

How Instrumented

to instrumentalize
  • Specialized
8.3
to instrument
  • Specialized
1 7.0
to equip
276 3.2
to fit
127 1.6

Surface Forms

instrumentalize infinitive
instrumentalized past
instrumentalized past participle
instrumentalizing present participle
instrumentalizes third person singular

Morphology

instrumentalize = instrumental (transparent) = instrument + al + ize

The verb is formed by adding the productive suffix '-ize' to 'instrumental', yielding 'to make equipped with instruments', a meaning logically derived from the base.

Etymology

Instrumentalize comes from the word instrument, a 'tool' or 'measuring device'. So to instrumentalize equipment is to add instruments or sensors to it so the device can measure or control things.