Usually means: Tool used to perform tasks.
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We found 57 dictionaries that define the word instrument:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. instrument: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instrument: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instrument: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instrument: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instrument: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instrument, instrument: Wordnik
  7. instrument: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instrument: Wiktionary
  9. instrument: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instrument: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instrument: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. instrument: Dictionary.com
  13. instrument: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. instrument: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Instrument (film), Instrument (finance), Instrument (linguistics), Instrument (music), Instrument: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Instrument: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. instrument: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. instrument: Rhymezone
  19. Instrument (nt), instrument, instrument (m), instrument (m) (de musique): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. instrument: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. instrument: Free Dictionary
  22. instrument: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. instrument: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. instrument: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. instrument: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. INSTRUMENTINSTRUMENT: Band Terms
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  5. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. instrument: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. instrument: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Instrument: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Instrument: Investopedia
  11. instrument: Legal dictionary
  12. Instrument (finance), instrument: Financial dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. instrument: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. instrument: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. instrument: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INSTRUMENT, INSTRUMENT, INSTRUMENT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. instrument: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. instrument: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. instrument: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Instrument: Data Acquisition
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See instrumented as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A device used to produce music.
noun:  A means or agency for achieving an effect.
noun:  A measuring or displaying device.
noun:  A tool, implement used for manipulation or measurement.
noun:  (law) A legal document, such as a contract, deed, trust, mortgage, power, indenture, or will.
noun:  (figuratively) A person used as a mere tool for achieving a goal.
verb:  (transitive) To apply measuring devices.
verb:  (transitive) To devise, conceive, cook up, plan.
verb:  To perform upon an instrument; to prepare for an instrument.
noun:  (aviation, usually in the plural) Ellipsis of flight instrument. [(aviation, usually in the plural) A device that measures and displays data concerning one or more aspects of the situation of an aircraft, such as its altitude, attitude, airspeed, etc.]

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