Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The application or use of instruments.
- n. Music The study and practice of arranging music for instruments.
- n. Music The arrangement or orchestration resulting from such practice.
- n. Music A list of instruments used in an orchestration.
- n. The study, development, and manufacture of instruments, as for scientific or industrial use.
- n. Instruments for a specific purpose.
- n. Instrumentality.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Use of instruments; work done by means of instruments, especially in surveying and the like.
- n. Instrumental means or aid; facility furnished by instruments; intermediate agency.
- n. In music, the process, act, or science of composing or arranging music for instruments, especially for an orchestra. It includes a knowledge of the technical manipulation, compass, tone-quality, and mutual adaptability of all recognized instruments. It is one of the most advanced branches of the general science of composition.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
- n. The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
- n. The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect.
- n. On a vehicle, dashboard gauges monitoring engine functions and performance, along with other essential functions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.
- n. The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
- n. The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance.
- n. The act of using instruments to measure or control the behavior of an object, as a patient in a hospital or a machine being tested while under development.
- n. The act of furnishing or attaching instruments to/
- n. The set of instruments included in a system.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of arranging a piece of music for an orchestra and assigning parts to the different musical instruments
- n. the act of providing or using the instruments needed for some implementation
- n. an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end
- n. the instruments called for in a musical score or arrangement for a band or orchestra
Examples
“One proposal for a mission which would have the right instrumentation is a NASA decadal survey mission ACE - Aerosol Cloud Ecosystems.”
“The instrumentation is heavier now, with trumpet figures and the addition of bass and snare drums lending almost the flavor of an operatic drinking song as the exultant "release" theme, opening with three bright high C-sharps on the violins, piccolo and flute, is answered by a vigorous rising gesture by the cellos and basses fortified by the bass trombone.”
“At times the instrumentation is quite good but it is constantly dragged down by the subpar lyrics.”
“During a flight, some of the necessary instrumentation is mounted on the helicopter, some on the ground.”
“They match it – in instrumentation, key tonality, chord progression, tempo, genre, voice quality, regional influences, extent of vamping and vocal harmony, and a hundred other variables based on the Music Genome Project – and create a radio station based solely around that music.”
“In the 1930s for example, the shift from radioactivity to nuclear physics required changes in instrumentation and the material culture of the institute.”
“The music, particularly the widespread use of percussion and other traditional Chinese instrumentation, is quite good.”
“The Clogs are a four-person, part-time improvisational and part-time compositional from the US and the land down under, and while their instrumentation is somewhat folk in nature, their sound is very progressive.”
“This is necessary to overcome the slippage of the last decade, especially in instrumentation for both basic research and advanced training in universities.”
“Their sound featured his often high-pitched and distorted guitar lines set against Latin American instrumentation such as timbales and congas.”
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