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instrumentation

instrumentation

4 6.1
Tools and devices used for work in science, medicine, or technology
  • noun
  • /ˌɪnstrəmenˈteɪʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : instrumentación
  • The laboratory invested in advanced instrumentation to improve the accuracy of its experiments.
  • laboratory instrumentation
  • instrumentation and testing
  • procedures and instrumentation

How do you actually do that without modern instrumentation?

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Examples

  • As previously stated, the quality of the data set depends on both the instrumentation and procedures.

    Academic text (2012)
  • After completion of medical screening and informed consent procedures, subjects were oriented to the instrumentation and experimental protocol.

    Academic text (1991)
  • So it's really a step forward into new generation of instrumentation and equipment.

  • If it's medical instrumentation outside of the US, not a big problem.

  • Some details and a summary of the instrumentation are given in the table at right.

    Academic text (1992)
  • We must have improved instrumentation, improved overall environmental monitoring, and more trained personnel.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Now, our instrumentation and cabin data systems are temporally out of service.

  • A great deal of sophisticated instrumentation is available for such spectroscopy.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Methods, procedures, and instrumentation must continue to be evaluated and developed to support RTI models of service delivery.

    Academic text (2008)
  • It has chapters on all of the instrumentation and a lot of the techniques that you'll be actually using in the course.

Synonyms

device
vsinstrumentation
2.1

A machine or tool made to do a particular job

applies to the group of items used in scientific or medical work rather than one object
equipment
vsinstrumentation
1.9

Tools and machines needed for a particular activity

is focused on use in science medicine or technology rather than general use
tool
vsinstrumentation
1.1

A thing you hold to do a job, like a hammer

also covers those handheld objects as well as larger machines and technical items
apparatus
vsinstrumentation
45 6.1

A set of machines or tools made to do a particular job

is a broader label for items used for a purpose without implying complexity
implement
vsinstrumentation
23 4.1

A tool used for a specific job, like in a kitchen or on a farm

includes such handheld utensils but also larger technical items used in science
armamentarium
vsinstrumentation
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A set of tools and ways doctors use to find and treat illness

is the set of items used for tasks rather than the complete collection with techniques
test equipment
vsinstrumentation
  • Specialized
1 3.4

Machines and tools that check how something works and measure it

covers items used for many purposes beyond checking or measuring

How Instrumented

apparatus
45 6.1
instrumentation
  • Specialized
4 6.1
equipment
1.9
tool
1.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

instrumentation = instrument (semi-transparent) = instrument + ation

The connection to 'instrument' is clear, but the collective/equipment sense is a specialized nominalization rather than a fully compositional everyday meaning.

Etymology

Instrumentation comes from instrument, which means 'tool' or 'device', and the ending -ation that makes a noun. So instrumentation often refers to the actual tools and equipment people use in science, medicine, or technology.