instrumentation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=stru=men=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

instrumentation, n. 

•  The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency.  [1913 Webster]

  "Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact."
•  The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band.
•  The act of using instruments to measure or control the behavior of an object, as a patient in a hospital or a machine being tested while under development.  [PJC]
•  The act of furnishing or attaching instruments to/  [PJC]
•  The set of instruments included in a system; as, a harvester with modern instrumentation.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

instrumentation, n.
1 a the arrangement or composition of music for a particular group of musical instruments. b the instruments used in any one piece of music.
2 a the design, provision, or use of instruments in industry, science, etc. b such instruments collectively.

Etymology

F f. instrumenter (as INSTRUMENT)

THESAURUS

instrumentation

adaptation, agency, agent, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, arrangement, assessment, assize, assizement, calculation, channel, computation, correction, determination, estimate, estimation, evaluation, gauging, harmonization, industrial instrumentation, instrument, instrumentality, intonation, mean, measure, measurement, measuring, medium, mensuration, metric system, ministry, missilery, modulation, orchestration, organ, phrasing, preparation, quantification, quantization, rating, resolution, rocketry, setting, solution, survey, surveying, suspension, telemetering, telemetry, tone painting, tooling, transcription, triangulation, valuation, vehicle