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instrument
instrument, tool /instruˈment/
noun#2730 most common
Also: device, implement, legal instrument
Example sentences
Vioara este un instrument muzical.
The violin is a musical instrument.
Am cumpărat un instrument nou pentru bucătărie.
I bought a new tool for the kitchen.
Chirurgul folosește instrumente speciale în timpul operației.
The surgeon uses special instruments during the operation.
Contractul este un instrument juridic important pentru ambele părți.
The contract is an important legal instrument for both parties.
Banca centrală a folosit rata dobânzii ca instrument principal de politică monetară.
The central bank used the interest rate as its main tool of monetary policy.
Eficiența instrumentelor de măsurare depinde de calibrarea lor periodică, altfel rezultatele devin nesigure.
The effectiveness of measuring instruments depends on their periodic calibration, otherwise the results become unreliable.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | instrumentul | instrumentele |
| Genitive | instrumentului | instrumentelor |
| Accusative | instrumentul | instrumentele |
| Vocative | instrumentule | instrumentelor |
Word family
instrumentalinstrumental, relating to an instrument
instrumentistinstrumentalist, musician who plays an instrument
a instrumentato orchestrate a piece, or to build up a legal case
instrumentațieinstrumentation
instrumentarrelating to a set of instruments, as in surgical instruments
Etymology
Romanian borrowed "instrument" from French and Latin during the nineteenth-century modernization of its vocabulary, when many everyday and technical words of Slavic origin were replaced or supplemented with Western Romance terms. The Latin source, instrumentum, meant equipment or means of doing something, and derives from the verb instruere, to build up or equip. The word entered Romanian ready-made rather than evolving from an older Latin layer already present in the language.
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