INSTRUMENTAL
\ˌɪnstɹəmˈɛntə͡l], \ˌɪnstɹəmˈɛntəl], \ˌɪ_n_s_t_ɹ_ə_m_ˈɛ_n_t_əl]\
Definitions of INSTRUMENTAL
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- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music.
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Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms.
By Oddity Software
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Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music.
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Applied to a case expressing means or agency; as, the instrumental case. This is found in Sanskrit as a separate case, but in Greek it was merged into the dative, and in Latin into the ablative. In Old English it was a separate case, but has disappeared, leaving only a few anomalous forms.
By Noah Webster.
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Done by the aid of mechanical appliances.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Acting as an instrument or means: serving to promote an object: helpful: belonging to or produced by musical instruments.
By Daniel Lyons
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Acting as an instrument; conducive; produced by instruments.
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Instrumentality.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Conducive, as an instrument or means, to some end; pertaining to music arising from instruments, as instrumental music.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Pertaining to, or performed by, an instrument.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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