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adj. Serving as a means or agency; implemental: was instrumental in solving the crime.

adj. Of, relating to, or accomplished with an instrument or tool.

adj. Music Performed on or written for an instrument.

adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or being the case used typically to express means, agency, or accompaniment.

adj. Of or relating to instrumentalism.

n. Grammar The instrumental case.

n. A word or form in the instrumental case.

n. Music A composition for one or more instruments, usually without vocal accompaniment.

adj. Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; essential or central.

adj. Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, especially a musical instrument.

adj. Applied to a case expressing means or agency, generally indicated in English by by or with with the objective.

n. The instrumental case.

n. A composition without lyrics.

adj. Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable.

adj. Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument.

adj. Applied to a case expressing means or agency. This is found in Sanskrit and Russian 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.

Of the nature of an instrument or tool; serving as an instrument or means; used or serving to promote or effect an object; helpful; serviceable: as, the press has been instrumental in enlarging the bounds of knowledge.

Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for instruments, especially musical instruments.

In grammar, serving to indicate the instrument or means: applied to a case, as in Sanskrit, involving the notion of by or with.

n. An instrument.

n. The instrumental case. Compare I., 3.

adj. relating to or designed for or performed on musical instruments

adj. serving or acting as a means or aid

"The term instrumental rationality is used because the definition views the actor as pursuing goals, to which he or she is committed for reasons irrelevant to the definition."

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instrumentality    instrumentive    instrumentation   

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orchestral    operatic    choral    applicable    scientific    indebted    musical    statistical    vocal    visual