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    instrument


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    1. People "find" themselves; they discover hidden capacities and an understanding never used before; they develop an awareness, even of the phenomenal world, which is, to them, miraculous; they suddenly register the fact of the mind, and that they can use it, and the distinction between the knower and the instrument of knowledge becomes steadily and revealingly apparent


    2. She blinked into some clothes and into Ava's instrument room


    3. She wondered if this instrument would even be working at all by now if it weren't for nano-mechanical repairs?


    4. What about the instrument pack that Vic left?"


    5. There was no instrument yet that had detected the presence of an electromagnetic signal from the planet ahead


    6. Isn't the piano or some other instrument an expedient? Not at all


    7. Singing is vocal music and music made with an instrument is


    8. The instrument I once loved so dearly, became a symbol of


    9. "I still don't understand why you failed," Vic said, also entering the instrument room where he was working


    10. He worked her body like a fine tuned instrument

    11. It was only about half the size of the instrument room, with racks of gear on one side and a large well-equipped workbench complete with foot-pedal on the other


    12. 'Yarriba!' he yelled and began to tune his instrument


    13. He could scroll thru them in each direction to the limits of his instrument


    14. They spent another week prying open the instrument schematics that had been transmitted from home with that quantum mechanics text


    15. Since none of them knew the science and the math on which this instrument operated, all they could verify is that he had correctly specified the fabrication


    16. They had to take the instrument itself as a given, and that was the crux of the problem


    17. “I’ve already got ideas on how we can instrument the quantum states in her thoughts


    18. “You’ll want to pop into my instrument room sir,” was all he would say


    19. “I guess he is,” Ava said, “but we have no other eyes and ears on the ground with access to a soul and the handheld instrument that his fabricator can produce


    20. “What is that instrument going to tell us?” Kelvin asked

    21. “We are building a handheld instrument that can entangle one’s thoughts and follow them to their destination


    22. He doesn’t have a finite extent you can measure with any instrument, no matter how long it takes to learn to interpret it


    23. Of course any instrument they could build could also be hacked, but she was trusting that Alan didn’t know enough quantum mechanics to fool them all


    24. keen edge on any sharp instrument, tutted disapprovingly at the offer


    25. To Davie the thing looks like an instrument of torture or the skeleton of a defeated alien invader


    26. Jorma obviously had no idea how to play the musical instrument that electric ghost made of that body today


    27. To the untrained man, to the casually aggressive, violence is a blunt instrument wielded on a whim and a skin full, but to Alex it is a tool employed with the loving care of a master craftsman


    28. instrument he was playing


    29. She knew little of the technical details and couldn’t really play an instrument, though she could sing decently


    30. He noticed that this instrument was also making the sounds for something like a separate glass xylophone that sounded like it was set up on the far side of the stage

    31. The team reported that the Instrument Landing System was set up, lights were working, the cradles were back to specs, trailers were parked and all equipment had been tested


    32. The yandrille truly is the instrument of the star fields he thought


    33. “It uses the Instrument Landing System or ILS


    34. In the center was an enormous chair, like a flower, and on it a tiny figure robed in white sat clutching an instrument and facing a panel of softly glowing hoses, pins and knobs


    35. The stall warning alarm sounded ominously as other alarms sounded and the instrument panel lit up with flashing lights


    36. No other logic-tuned instrument I've ever heard before would dare attempt an acoustic sounding note


    37. "He didn't want to interfere with my learning of this instrument so he went down to that reconstruction he's got going on down under the valley


    38. "How would he interfere with you learning this instrument?"


    39. But it must be considered, that the price of any instrument of husbandry, such as a labouring horse, is itself made up of the same time parts ; the rent of the land upon which he is reared, the labour of tending and rearing him, and the profits of the farmer, who advances both the rent of this land, and the wages of this labour


    40. To him, land is only the instrument which enables him to earn the wages of this labour, and to make the profits of this stock

    41. when the nurse placed the abominable instrument in her


    42. Placing each instrument on a chair they slid them to the back


    43. He was closer to the guys he used to work with in the instrument room


    44. Inquisition an instrument of tyranny, namely the


    45. The improved dexterity of a workman may be considered in the same light as a machine or instrument of trade which facilitates and abridges labour, and which, though it costs a certain expense, repays that expense with a profit


    46. A certain quantity of very valuable materials, gold and silver, and of very curious labour, instead of augmenting the stock reserved for immediate consumption, the subsistence, conveniencies, and amusements of individuals, is employed in supporting that great but expensive instrument of commerce, by means of which every individual in the society has his subsistence, conveniencies, and amusements, regularly distributed to him in their proper proportions


    47. The substitution of paper in the room of gold and silver money, replaces a very expensive instrument of commerce with one much less costly, and sometimes equally convenient


    48. The usual instrument of commerce having lost its value, no exchanges could be made but either by barter or upon credit


    49. Though the annual purchases of all the consumers, therefore, are at least equal in value to those of all the dealers, they can generally be transacted with a much smaller quantity of money ; the same pieces, by a more rapid circulation, serving as the instrument of many more purchases of the one kind than of the other


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    1. Whether or not they will become musicians or play some musical instruments in their adulthood, love of music is a gift that will continue to enrich them all their lives


    2. small dais set with music stands and instruments placed ready for musical hands


    3. uncertainly on their hind legs towards their instruments


    4. "I've been watching the readings going out on these instruments


    5. Some of the instruments Alfred left behind were simple weather and soil chemistry stations in remote areas


    6. Besides the instruments in microprobes in the soil, there were landers that could be flown


    7. Now she was drifting above it using the eyes of her android for instruments


    8. "There's just under half a million left now, according to these instruments


    9. "She would set up all the instruments and get them out


    10. It was a very good representation of the environment the mortal humans on the planet below lived in, she wondered if they had planted nano instruments that allowed one to converse with people on the planet below in real time

    11. "I've got the instruments out," she told her sister on the ground


    12. Her sister on the ground was worried they might have run it without the containment, but their instruments would have alarmed if they had done that and would still see it as a beacon now


    13. Ava keeps this room in zero-gee, and keeps the main display's of all the station's instruments in here


    14. The reactor had been cooling for about fifty four hours now, but the instruments on Gordon's lamp were thirty years beyond those of the Presidente Lula, and the Lula's instrumentation was up to date, even if its engine was dated


    15. serve those who are in need with the instruments of scientific medi-


    16. The technicians believe that they are instruments of God's will by making this happen while maintaining their humility among the non-technical


    17. It went only to enough circuitry to provide the instruments on the male side with the inputs they would generate if there really was a female side to the ship


    18. The instruments that were still running on the Presidente Lula were capable of detecting a signature given off by an approaching starship


    19. It was nearly Noonsleep, that sleep in broad daylight, when he looked at the instruments in his room again and saw other disturbing news from the direction of the Al-Harron


    20. "Antenna 521 and the NEI were always powered up and we've been able to bring up the PEI instruments remotely

    21. But Joris was also an entertainer, JJ … I mean, James … sorry … he was a brilliant acrobat and played several instruments


    22. Alfred preferred a fairly representational universe where you actually had to move your personification to the instruments rather than just overlaying them on your personal space


    23. There is also a budding industry making musical instruments growing up in the area around the Performance Hall


    24. JayJay still hankers after his piano and I believe there is an idea in the offing to send someone across to look into how this and other instruments requiring a fixed venue are manufactured


    25. That claim had been made by some scientists at some of the smaller observatories that wouldn't have had the instruments to properly analyze that plume


    26. Today he was looking for the details of the instruments that were detecting the signals he was analyzing


    27. "She's in an alternate veron store," Alan said, "The instruments say it's in your lab


    28. All the action was in Thom’s lab, and to do anything but watch he would have to get into there after all, re-mapping the controls and instruments at the hardware data layer and manually editing the micro-amp accounting to cover his tracks while he did that


    29. If he was to guess, he figured that she would go into a hang on every time slice because there was so much security preventing any signals from coming back thru Thom’s instruments to anything, including that veron store


    30. The only idea he had was to try and make a hole thru the security from Thom’s instruments and allow signals to come in from Ava’s instance so the remote veron execution protocol could complete

    31. Their instruments had detected the possibility of naturally occurring condensates but they had not done entanglement studies


    32. But heavy with guilt after my foolishness that afternoon, I kept to the sides and the back, hidden amongst some visitors watching Aristethes and his son sitting with their instruments upon a table


    33. At first he didn't trust his instruments and went over them carefully


    34. "Yeah, in its way, but there's math behind it and it's effecting the instruments


    35. "There are other phenomenon that can effect instruments," Thom said


    36. As well as the instruments themselves, she combed his sensory scene generators, as well as those that the other people present had been using at the time


    37. He didn't want to have to think about what this meant did he? He didn't want to say that his instruments were telling them that all the dark matter was conspiring to wipe out all Angels from the realm of Sol


    38. They were still setting up the instruments to tune into the atoms in the mini veron store that were entangled with the fourth order condensate in his largest antimatter trap to date


    39. He could even understand Heymon and Glayet's cautions that the laws of physics allowed Brazilian Intelligence to tap into their system thru his instruments if he left it unsecured


    40. Their diversion to the Kuiper Belt was barely detectable with astronomical instruments at this point

    41. "That's what our instruments are telling us


    42. However, if they are using quantum entanglement to communicate, only Thom’s instruments would detect it


    43. “Unless we re-write the laws of physics,” Heymon said, “and we may have to re-write a lot of the laws of physics if we can’t find the bug in Thom’s instruments


    44. If they had agents who were able to infiltrate his ship using instruments they weren’t even supposed to have, they certainly had agents that could infiltrate the charity wards where his mother was kept


    45. “As far as I can tell, the readings are coming from the physics of the instruments in base reality


    46. If my diagnostics haven’t been corrupted, and I believe they have not, and I am not encapsulated, the instruments are seeing base reality and not a simulated signal


    47. “That came in from Thom’s instruments,” Heymon said


    48. “I was out front stopping Alan, not in here at the instruments


    49. You have to be inside the secure area to get to the pins to reprogram any of the hardware Thom’s instruments are using


    50. She felt the instruments reading the state changes in the condensate chamber as a gentle current drawing her in














































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    Synonyms for "instrument"

    instrument tool musical instrument instrumental role legal document legal instrument official document cat's-paw pawn instrumentate vehicle ministry method means channel organ device utensil mechanism implement

    "instrument" definitions

    a device that requires skill for proper use


    the means whereby some act is accomplished


    a person used by another to gain an end


    (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right


    the semantic role of the entity (usually inanimate) that the agent uses to perform an action or start a process


    any of various devices or contrivances that can be used to produce musical tones or sounds


    equip with instruments for measuring, recording, or controlling


    write an instrumental score for


    address a legal document to