Scientific apparatus: the devices and instruments built to observe, measure or manipulate the physical world, from the telescope to the mass spectrometer. It excludes the units an instrument reads out in, which have their own category, and excludes the experiments an instrument was built for, which are recorded as their own entities with an instrument connection.
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Online Etymology DictionaryOnline Etymology Dictionary, instrument entry, lead senseQuote, Online Etymology Dictionary, instrument entry, lead sense
late 13c., "musical instrument, mechanical apparatus for producing musical sounds," from Old French instrument, enstrument "means, device; musical instrument"
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