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  • Instrument

    ·noun A contrivance or implement, by which musical sounds are produced; as, a musical instrument. I...

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  • instrument

    A term of extensive application among tools and weapons; but it is here introduced as an official co...

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  • transit instrument

    A telescope fitted with vertical wires, and revolving on an axis in the plane of the meridian, with ...

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  • y's of an instrument

    The Y-shaped bearings for the telescope axis, on the precision of which the value of an astronomical...

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