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Means vs Instrumentality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between means and instrumentality

is that means is plural of lang=en while instrumentality is the quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.

As a verb means

is third-person singular of mean.

means

English

(wikipedia means)

Noun

(head)
  • An instrument or condition for attaining a purpose.
    • A car is a means of transport .
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  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= ‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told , passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
  • Resources; riches.
    • He was living beyond his means .
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    • Usage notes

    Frequently contrasted with , as in “a means to an end”. Similar contrast is (process) vs. (product).

    Synonyms

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    Verb

    (head)
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    instrumentality

    English

    Noun

    (instrumentalities)
  • (uncountable) The quality or condition of being instrumental; serving a purpose, being useful.
  • *1902 , William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience , Folio Society 2008, p. 294:
  • *:In a later vision the Saviour revealed to her in detail the ‘great design’ which he wished to establish through her instrumentality .
  • (countable, legal) A governmental organ with a specific purpose.
  • *1994 , :
  • *:Any work in which the copyright was ever owned or administered by the and in which the restored copyright would be owned by a government or instrumentality thereof, is not a restored work.
  • (countable) Something that is instrumental; an instrument
  • *{{quote-book, year=1838, author=American Anti-Slavery Society, title=The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He spoke of the various instrumentalities which were now employed for the conversion of the world.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Helen Hunt Jackson, title=Bits About Home Matters, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Delays and failures will only set her to casting about for new instrumentalities . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1914, author=Samuel F. B. Morse, title=Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=God works by instrumentalities , and he has wonderfully thus far interposed in keeping evils that I feared in abeyance. }}