instrument

As nouns the difference between instrument and dichroscope

is that instrument is a device used to produce music while dichroscope is an instrument for examining the dichroism of crystals.

As a verb instrument

is to apply measuring devices.

As nouns the difference between instrument and myodynamometer

is that instrument is while myodynamometer is an instrument for measuring muscular strength.

As nouns the difference between instrument and tonsilotome

is that instrument is while tonsilotome is (surgery) an instrument for removing the tonsils.

As nouns the difference between instrument and laryngotome

is that instrument is while laryngotome is (surgery) an instrument for performing laryngotomy.

As nouns the difference between instrument and hydrometrograph

is that instrument is while hydrometrograph is an instrument for measuring and recording the quantity of water discharged from a pipe, etc.

As nouns the difference between instrument and endosmometer

is that instrument is while endosmometer is an instrument for measuring the force or amount of endosmotic action.

As nouns the difference between instrument and dipleidoscope

is that instrument is while dipleidoscope is (astronomy) an instrument for determining the time of apparent noon it consists of two mirrors and a plane glass in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's centre is on the meridian.

As nouns the difference between instrument and photographometer

is that instrument is while photographometer is (dated) an instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

As nouns the difference between instrument and chorograph

is that instrument is while chorograph is an instrument for constructing triangles in marine surveying, etc.

As nouns the difference between instrument and lithoclast

is that instrument is while lithoclast is a surgical instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.