Instrumentality

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Instrumentality \In`stru*men*tal"i*ty\, n.; pl.
     {Instrumentalities}.
     The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is
     instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
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           The instrumentality of faith in justification. --Bp.
                                                    Burnet.
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           The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of
           attack and defense in a new instrumentality. --J. H.
                                                    Newman.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  instrumentality
       n 1: a subsidiary organ of government created for a special
            purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local
            governments adequate?"; "he studied the French
            instrumentalities for law enforcement"
       2: the quality of being instrumental for some purpose
       3: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in
          accomplishing some end [syn: {instrumentation}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "instrumentality":
     agency, agent, channel, device, energy, expedient, force,
     going between, instrument, instrumentation, intermediation,
     machinery, mean, mechanism, mediation, medium, might, ministry,
     organ, power, recourse, resort, service, vehicle