| Instrumentation 1. (n.) The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. 2. (n.) The arrangement of a musical composition for performance by a number of different instruments; orchestration; instrumental composition; composition for an orchestra or military band. 3. (n.) The act or manner of playing upon musical instruments; performance; as, his instrumentation is perfect. Thesaurus Entries 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 |